Interesting. I also think it's fascinating how some people trace human migration by studying language taxonomy.
Although English is a mishmash of confusing rules and pronunciations, I think it's great strength is that it does combine small parts of so many other languages. That, plus we finally got rid (mostly) of the silly gender-specific nouns that our parent language had. I almost pity the romance languages for their adherence to this awkward concept.
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Date: 2009-Aug-09, Sunday 02:45 pm (UTC)Although English is a mishmash of confusing rules and pronunciations, I think it's great strength is that it does combine small parts of so many other languages. That, plus we finally got rid (mostly) of the silly gender-specific nouns that our parent language had. I almost pity the romance languages for their adherence to this awkward concept.