Re: French (was Re: Re: Optimum number of symbols)

I guess it's because I speak Spanish like a gringo and
use my pronouns with my verbs almost all the time,
even with things dead-obvious like "yo".

Clint

--- Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
> >
> > Gotta jump in on this...  It's exactly because you
> > have to pronounce the Spanish verb endings that
> makes
> > it more difficult *to speak*.
>
> While in French and English you have to say the
> pronounce.  Same thing,
> really.  In English you change it at front "I speak"
> "You speak" "He
> speaks" "We speak" "Y'all speak" "They speak"
> whereas in Spanish you
> change the end "Hablo" "Hablas" "Habla" "Hablamos"
> ("Habláis")
> "Hablan".  In French, you change the front in
> speech, and both the front
> and the back in writing!  "Je parle" "Tu parles" "Il
> parlet" "Nous
> parlons" "Vous parlez" "Ils parlent" (Forgive me if
> I got the forms
> wrong)
>
> --
> "There's no such thing as 'cool'.  Everyone's just a
> big dork or nerd,
> you just have to find people who are dorky the same
> way you are." -
> overheard
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