Not that I'm in favor of off-topic discussions, but like so many, I can't resist. Re German: This is a must-see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language, about Mark Twain's ROTFLMAO essay. The article's information about analytic vs. synthetic languages is interesting, too.
To Elardus & Radoslaw: Us native English speakers have to deal with the world's most complicated language (citation needed), so we have no extra capacity to learn other languages. We're sorry :-) sas On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > Steve Thompson wrote: > > >Radoslaw wrote: > >> (Disclaimer: my Enlgish is poor, some nuances can be lost in > translation. ) > > >I wish my German was as poor as your English. > >Or to put this as it is actually meant: I wish my German was as good as > your English. > > Hahaha, I wish my English is good, better and excellent like your and > others English. > > If I could only speak Afrikaans on IBM-MAIN, but I believe I'm in the > minority... ;-D > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
