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On 24/01/2012 15:46, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> I suggest to create English 2.0, and convince the whole world to speak
> your own
> way better implementation of English.

Too late for that when comparing modern English with that of e.g. 
Dickens, Shakespeare, Chaucer and Bede, hence at a minimum I reckon we 
should be at 6.0.

Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.