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Thomas Heger wrote:
> 
> Am Freitag000013, 13.06.2025 um 19:14 schrieb The Starmaker:
> > 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!
> 
> I can speak, read and write English quite well, even if that isn't perfect.
> 
> But English is a second language for me. (My native language is German.)


You're German? Can you explain to me why Israel today  doesn't want
Germany to posses nucluer weapons????

i don't see Germany today commiting genocide or bothering their
neighbors...



 
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