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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:17:30 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote:
> Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
> > So actually it's a pretty good analogy. :)
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> Another great strength of English is that through years of borrowing ideas
> from other languages, you end up with many ways to express the same idea,
> allowing the flexibilty both to make things beautiful and to find just the
> precise way to convey the exact shade of meaning you want.
It also means there are 50 thousand rules to learn, and 50 million
exceptions to those rules.
At least we don't have to cojugate (sp?) anything...
Steve
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| (...) Luckily human beings are very good at that. In fact, the rules seem to be mostly descriptive -- we naturally say things a certain way, and then retroactively we look and say, "ok, that's the right way to say it because of such-and-such-rule". (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Another great strength of English is that through years of borrowing ideas from other languages, you end up with many ways to express the same idea, allowing the flexibilty both to make things beautiful and to find just the precise way to (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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