Hi Tony,
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:57:32 +0100GMT (26/04/2000, 19:57 +0800GMT),
Tony Boom wrote:
TB> Your probably right. Simon gave a contextual explanation but in
TB> England (Supposedly the hardest language to learn)
Obviously. "England" is the country, "English" is the language. Don't
laugh, there are enough languages (for example Thai) that don't
distinguish between the two. Both is "Angkrit" in Thai, and I taught
many a Thai the difference between "engLAND" and "engLISH" in the
England language. ;-)
However, English is still very easy as you don't have any
declinations, conjugations, and other niceties that German, Finnish
and I believe Russian have. And talking about meanings of words
changing with the context - English is again easy, this time compared
to Chinese. ;-)
English couldn't have become such a big language if it wasn't easy.
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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