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Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Wed Sep 20 18:01:50 EDT 2000 
Grant Edwards <ge at nowhere.none> wrote:
> In article <39C867B5.DFF9FFD3 at seebelow.org>, Grant Griffin wrote:
[English, inconsistencies]

> Hey, at least we've only got one word for "the" and none of
> that silly "gender" stuff.

I agree that 'the' and also sensible usage of 'he/she/it' is a nice
feature of English grammar. English *grammar* is quite consistent
and simple. Of course I may be biased because Dutch is close to
English grammar wise (in between English and German in complexity). 
English is a language that has few exceptions and relatively little
odd stuff to learn.

What is a mess with English is its spelling, even though I don't seem to have
a lot of trouble with it, for some reason. There may still be deeper patterns
that a brain can pick up, perhaps?

What is difficult to learn because of its large size is English vocabulary.
But that's also one of its charms; quite a few words to express shades of
meaning. But luckily one doesn't have to pick up the whole vocabulary
at once.

All in all, English is a nice language. Rich literature and such too.

Of course I'm biased. I'm happy with English as a world language because
I know it pretty well. Just wanted to say it has its strengths, though. :)

Regards,

Martijn
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