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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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ehanks@du.edu (Edwin Hanks) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <3riv4a$a86@mercury.cair.du.edu>:

>There is something to be said in favor of the complexity of English.
>
There is much to be said in favor of the complexity of English, or any 
other language. The same cannot be said for the related concept, 
complication.

I know English as my native language and Esperanto comparably well. I've 
used Danish as an exchange student and studied Latin, French and German 
in school (not to any great depth, except for the first...). As far as 
I can tell, from an objective point of view all of these are equally 
complex; from my own subjective point of view, of course, Danish, Latin, 
French and German are quite limited in their capabilities. Esperanto, 
however, is by far the least complicated, by any measure.

The difference between the two terms can best be described by a ball of 
yarn. Turned into a sweater by a couple of knitting needles, the yarn is 
now complex. Turn the ball over to a kitten, and after a while you'll 
have something equally complex, but far more complicated.

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