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Date Posted: 18:08:07 11/06/99 Sat
Author: Max
Subject: Missing the game
In reply to: theo 's message, "Las idiomas (language)" on 05:15:54 11/06/99 Sat

Your mention of a thesaurus made me think of a friend. When he was in high school he was in a band. He wrote song lyrics by reading the thesaurus and picking the most outragous synonym for what he wanted to say. It is quite a trip talking to him even today.

I figured if i was going to miss college football, i might as well check in at the Gulch!

Max

> > > 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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