On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 09:56:06 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:00:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
<snip> > The world seems to have adopted English, so I don't think you'll > convince many people... I don't understand why the world should have adopted English as the de-facto international language. It is one of the most difficult languages of all to learn. English is very hard to understand because it seems to have no rules of pronunciation and spelling and also because the grammatical constructions and concepts are so very confusing. Even professors of English will have differences of opinion on proper English grammar and usage. Even though I am a college graduate I know that even I will sometimes comit some very bristling errors in grammar when attempting to write or say something very clearly in plain English. I will bet dollars to donuts that a study could be made that would prove that the average "foreigner" speaks his own native language much better than the average American speaks English. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
