On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 08:55:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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>> >Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult???
>> Because it is so difficult and some of us take the trouble to learn it
>> correctly we don't mangle it like our cousins across the pond -
>> especially their leader.
>"Natural evolution of language" is probably listed in a dictionary
>somewhere under his name :-)
>
>Won't be long before some versions of English are classed as separate
>languages I suppose, since there are significant differences (not just
>accents) between English as spoken on the various continents.
>
>The most widely used second language in the world...
Indeed it is.
There are more English speakers in China and the Far East than in the UK
and America combined I think.
Tony
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