At 3:26 pm -0400 22/9/01, David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 9/22/01 11:51:14 AM, p.r.ramsey@WORLDNET.ATT.NET writes:
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><< I am led, therefore, to the conclusion
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>that the most difficult language to learn is the one that differs most from
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>one's native tongue or from the other languages with which one has
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>proficiency. >>
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> Wow... This is so profound and sounds so, so true... Yet I don't think
>I've ever heard it. Quick! Write a book before someone else steals your
>idea!
Too late - the idea is old.
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
[J.G. Hamann 1760]
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