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To: arun gera who wrote (2427)	11/26/2005 2:13:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 218649

<There are many languages that have as much versatility as English to express scientific or artistic thought. > Are there? I suppose Spanish, German, French, Latin, Italian are similar in design and have the same possibilities. I know almost nothing about language but I do know English/American has so many weird things that it's like the imperial system of weights and measures. I'm sure there's a better way. I have no idea what it is. Chinese seems a hopeless ideographic system. Arabic looks like a row of squiggles and judging by their economies and ideas, doesn't represent much of value. Maori had no written language, no plural and was a stone age language they are trying, on the taxpayer, to convert to a modern language. Which existing language is as good as American? ElM says Portugese is a fizzer and he is fluent in it and not so hot in English. Maybe it's time for a revolution in language to create a lingua franca. Esperanto was an attempt, but fell on deaf ears, so to speak. Maybe Esperanto isn't really very good. My guess is that American will be "metricated" to take out some inconsistencies. Unfortunately, some changes seem retrograde rather than improvements. In NZ now, there is a reducing use of the spoken word women as a plural for woman. People [the younger ones] say woman instead of women. It sounds so dumb, but intelligent ones do it too. I suppose it's the Maorification of Kiwi language. Mqurice

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