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"Nick Keighley" <> wrote in message
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> On Mar 30, 10:00 am, jacob navia <ja...@spamsink.net> wrote:

>> Reading English is easy, and understanding the basics is easier to learn
>> than other languages.
>
> obviously you know better than me, but isn't english highly
> irregular? I've known several people for whom english was a second
> language and they all moaned about its illogic. Actually they were
> mostly Italian (and I understand Italian is very logical in its
> spelling)

Spelling is the simplest part of Italian (and other phonetic languages,
Spanish, etc).

But it makes up for that in grammar: I think some 16 conjugations of verbs
compared with 2 or 3 in English, for example.

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Bartc