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Thomas Heger wrote:
> 
> Am Dienstag000010, 10.06.2025 um 12:56 schrieb Governor Swill:
> > On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 07:04:30 +0200, Thomas Heger wrote:
> >> Am Freitag000006, 06.06.2025 um 08:03 schrieb Gronk:
> >>> Governor Swill wrote:> On Sat, 31 May 2025 08:41:43 +0200, Thomas Heger
> > <snip>
> >>>   > Prussian disappeared in the 17th century - before globalization.
> >>>   > Conquest, military and non military can wipe out small languages.
> >>>   > Cultures can be absorbed by larger ones leading to loss of a language.
> >>>   > Russian is as common as Ukrainian in Ukraine. There are a few common
> >>>   > second languages today.  English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian
> >>>   > and lately Chinese.
> >>
> >> German was actually a 'lingua franca', too.
> >>
> >>
> >> Chinese on the other hand is no language you like to learn for fun.
> >>
> >> Especially writing in Chinese is REALLY difficult.
> >>
> >> The language itself has also disadvantages.
> >>
> >> This can be seen in many translations from Chinese in what they like to
> >> call 'manuals'.
> >>
> >> These little papers reveal a lack of something called 'grammar', hence
> >> the language has a lack of possibility to express certain subtle ideas.
> >
> > English is quite common in Asia.  In photos of cities English signs
> > can often be seen and not all are 'brand names'.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> But that 'English' isn't the language of the British Islands.
> 
> The problem is, that the iternal logic of Chinese makes Chinese speakers
> almost certainly bad speakers of English.
> 
> This is why many 'English manuals' of products from China are more funny
> than useful.
> 
> >
> >> English has disadvantages, too, but which are quite irrelevant for most
> >> speakers of English as a second language:
> >>
> >> English has an insane amout of diffent words (~one million)
> >>
> >> English has also a number of totally illogic rules and special cases.
> >
> > This is largely because English comes from the same Indo European
> > branch as German but is heavily modified by the Romance languagues,
> > especially French.   Owing to the Conquest, a huge number of Old
> > French words entered common usage in England, often delineating class.
> > For example, Britons ate pigs, but the French conquerors served it
> > with fine wine and called it pork.
> 
> English had a HUGE number of ancestors, who had left their marks in the
> English language.
> 
> Keltic languages
> Latin
> Danish
> French
> German
> Dutch
> Hindi
> Kisuaheli
> ...
> 
> TH

That is whay Daniel Webster invented the "Webster Dictionary"...to get
rid of
all these foreign influences.

In Mexicao they say "tele"
In Britian they say "tele"...

in the United States we say...Television!


TELEVISION!!!!

Learn English!


It is the Official Language of The United States.


Buy a Webster Dictionary today...


Math is a language very little people know..

anyone here speak penquin?


Did you know dinosaurs didn't...roar? they tweet.



tweet, tweet, twwet.














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