Re: English syllable structure

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From: "jogloran" <exponent@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: English syllable structure


> Adam Walker wrote:
> <<
> Me too.  I seriously thank God that He let me have English as my first
> language.  I would not have liked to try to learn this beast as a
> second
> language.  Chinese is horrid enough.  The only major language I can
> thing of
> that would be more frightening to learn as an L2 is French.  Which
> is, of
> course, why I have never made ANY attempt to learn it.  Chinese I can
> handle
> (sort of).
>
> Adam
> >>
>
> From Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language" I would have expected
> German to be worse than French.
>
> When I had to make a personal choice between learning Italian and
> French, I chose Italian because a) it's easier b) Paolo Conte isn't
> French c) I hadn't heard that spoken colloquial Italian was like a
> completely different language from the literary language :)
>
> Imperative
French? I hate french. There is no language less logical and more
complicated.  English is pretty bad too, fortunately, I speak it anyway, so
it doesn't matter.  Old English is nice, very nice indeed.

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