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William Graham wrote:
"Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote:
"Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> writes:

English is a very difficult language because of meaning-shifts like
these--which seem nearly nonsensical to the learner.

English is no more difficult to learn than any other language.

Not true at all.
Apparently you don't have a lot of experience in lingistics.
I'm no expert, but I did grow up in a family of full time
translators, and there is no legitimate dispute that languages have
widely varying levels of difficulty--especially when it comes to
acquiring them as second languages.

Spelling in English is a nightmare compared with Spanish...as are the
rules of pronunciation when comparing the two. The difference is
h-u-g-e.
Yes. Spanish is phonetic, and English is not. Even I have no trouble
pronouncing Spanish, and I don't speak it at all. Once you learn how
to pronounce the vowels, you are home free. But english pronunciation
varies from place to place, as well as from word to word, with no
apparent rhyme or reason behind it. - I am reminded of "Gough" Street
in San Francisco. Some pronounce it to rhyme with "plough", and some
to rhyme with "trough", and one guy I know pronounces it to rhyme
with "through" .....

Here's another fun one:
If you've got a truly complete dictionary...look up the word "run" and count
the definitions.
:)

-Or how about bough, cough, tough, through (& threw).
Or wrote and rote, wrought & rot, cot & cought, threw & through, bomb &
comb(???!!), womb & room & plume & fume. -Oh, and that's "fYooom"...not
"foom" as it is in plume.
Too, to & two...right, rite & write...wrote & rote.
Weigh & way & whey...hay & hey... Message & massage--how's that "g" go
again?
miC-e & miCrophone.
THe & THick...
acTION vs. tenSION vs. SHUN.

Weeeeeeee...what fun English is...unless you have to learn it--or worse--
SPELL IT!!
:)
....I could go on forever (and the mayhem that is English nearly does).
See it now, Mxmanic?

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