Re: Let's argue about... English

$Zero wrote:
On Jul 30, 1:48?pm, Bill Penrose <penr...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 30, 3:43 am, $Zero <zeroi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Let's argue about... English
I think the votes are in. English has already shown itself to be too
complicated, too hard to pronounce, too arbitrary, and too ambiguous
to make it useful as a real method of communication. Besides, it has
too many words.

The chances of English eclipsing Esperanto as the international
language of mankind are laughable, at best

i propose we switch to drums.

...

sans drumsticks, of course.

Greedy. How come =you= always get the drumsticks?

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