On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-10-11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's > > breakfast and makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native > > speakers. Mind you, it makes about as much sense to native > > speakers as well :-) I had to take 5 years of Latin study in > > high school to understand how my own mother tongue works. Sad > > indictment for a language wouldn't you say? > > At least we mostly got rid of the whole gender mess and only > have to worry about objective/subjective case for a few cases.
which makes english a horrible, horrible language. > During a mostly futile attempt to learn German, I had occasion > to read Mark Twin's essay on Germain articles. IIRC, plotting > out all of the combinations for "the" takes something like a > 3x9 grid it is always hard to go from chaos to order.
