[Wikipedia-l] Edits by project and country of origin

[Francis Tyers]

How would you define "simple" -- Personally I'm not sure that I'd say
that any natural language is simple.

Fran

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 10:42 -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> It depends on what you mean by a simple language.  English is second 
> only to Chinese in its simplicity. 
> 
> Ec
> 
> Akash Mehta wrote:
> 
> >That would make sense at the least. English has always been seen as
> >overcomplicated, as opposed to simple languages like German (maybe
> >thats why de wiki has so many contributors?).
> >
> >On 9/4/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On 9/4/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>HoI,
> >>>Thanks for the positive apreciation of the Dutch and Belgian effort. There
> >>>is no positive meaning to the word slut.. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slut
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>> GerardM
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I think it was meant to be humorous, since normally *English* is the
> >>slut of languages, as has been pointed out because of its
> >>indiscriminate importation of words. At least, that's how I read it.
> >>
> 
> 
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