On Saturday 07 February 2009 21:25:05 Steffen Winkler wrote: > german is a bad(?) language...english is much better (easier to learn, > better gramma and so on)
Damn, there goes the coffee all over my keyboard again :-D Even as a native, english english speaker I can see english isn't the simplest language to learn - I'm trying to teach my 3 yr old to read at the moment which is an excellent way of discovering just how inconsistent spelling and pronounciation is in english. I guess getting invaded every 2-300 years until 900 odd years ago, coupled with the royal family swanning about between germany, france and spain ever since then is a great way of muddling up a language :-) I do like "'s" for possessive though - whoever brought that one to our shores was a genius :-) Kudos to those non-natives on the list that write so well! FWIW, I twigged akku as accumulator becuase that was the word used for capacitors in the 1960's radio ham mags that my father had :-) > Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 20:16 +0100 schrieb arne anka: > > well, it's short for akkumulator -- replace kk with cc and, according to > > my dictionary, it is part of english too -- with the same meaning. > > > > > Ahh, no, I guess we don't have any handy four-letter word for > > > rechargeable batteries. Heheh > > > > that's the beauty of german :-) we don't even have such nice ... > > abbreviations ... like WWW as opposed to the much longer World Wide Web > > *scnr*
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