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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Esperanto? The EU? (Very, very long)
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In article <DJOHNSON.95Mar10171634@tartarus.ucsd.edu>
           djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu "Darin Johnson" writes:
> Why English?  The only reason it's in wide use is from English and
> American colonialism, imperialism, economic clout, or whatever (and
> because Americans are lax in really learning foreign languages).  It
> has nothing to do with any objective advantages to English as a good
> language for inernational communication.
> 
> English is very bad for this purpose in many ways.  It is very
> difficult to learn (the defacto international language is not
> English, it is pidgin English), has an enormous vocabulary,
> bizarre spelling and grammar rules (more so than even many other
> European languages).

I agree about the spelling and vocabulary. But how are the grammar rules
complicated? IMO English grammar is no more complex than French grammar.
 
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Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
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