Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Mon Oct 2 16:19:39 EDT 2000

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Darren New <dnew at san.rr.com> wrote:
[snip discussion of 'thou']

Well, thou may change the picture, but currently English does look like
I described, so that still stands. :)

> But speaking to other non-native speakers (whose first languages were
> romance languages, mind), I was suprised to hear that the simplicity of verb
> conjugations was one of the appealing aspects of English. I would have
> thought it was the gender thing, myself.

Oh, the absence of gendered nouns is very important to me. I'd probably
not be very fluent if English had gendered nouns.

Regards,

Martijn
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