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From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 14:05
YHL wrote:

> > > Okay okay, I sit corrected. It is a natural language, but from my
experience
> > in Latin speaking the language is very tedious, and I wish my language
to be
> > more fluent, easily spoken. > > IMHO "easily spoken" depends on what language you come from! Since > English has lost most of its cases (pedants like me who use "whom," > things like "whose," etc. remain), English speakers may find case > language problematic. But I bet people used to free word order and cases > find more analytic languages with their tiresome word-order rules a pain > to learn.
Yup, I agree with you. I think English for a Tagalog L1 speaker could seem more difficult than Latin to an English mothertongual speaker. Luca