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Date Posted: 05:15:54 11/06/99 Sat
Author: theo
Subject: Las idiomas (language)
In reply to: Max 's message, "Re: C^u unu malsana(ill) lingvo, o kio?!!" on 23:35:25 11/05/99 Fri

> > As I begin to dabble in Esperanto again, with all its
> > beautiful simplicity, it occurs to me what a f^ck^ng
> > convoluted language English is.
> >
> > How the hell did it get popular?! GF

It is a convoluted language but the richest in
the world. It's the only one with a separate
book of synonyms, the Thesaurus. A quick
look in a Spanish/English dictionary will show
many English words that require whole sentences
and sometimes paragraphs in a Spanish equivalent.
That, to me, is one of the beauties of English:
efficiency. Spanish to English tranlators are
very busy. I know one. Whew!

I love languages and can, at minimum, "get along"
in 4 but haven't looked at Esperanto.

Thing is, the most widely [geographically] spoken
language is English, as Latin was so many years ago.
But more people speak Mandarin. And did you know
there are more English speakers in China than
in the uS?...or so I've heard. BTW, the only word
for any kind of liquor in China is tranlated as
"wine".

I'm very happy that English was my native language.

I wonder what will happen when the whole world is
comfortable at least reading English. I'd say it
will be a very different one, and it shouldn't be
long now. Spoken english is now beamed all over the
world via satellite. Something else to consider.

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