On Monday 12 October 2009 22:13:26 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:18:04 Alan McKinnon 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 :-) > > Even allowing for the smiley, this isn't true. English makes perfect sense > to me. >
Come live and work with me for a week. I'll show you the average English native speaker that lives outside of the British Isles. You can even listen to them. I dare say you are an exception to the norm, someone who in days gone by would have been called "an educated man" or perhaps "a man of letters"? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
