On 29/12/2010 11:00 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > The only thing special about English is that its > speakers have a lot of financial and political power these days.
What a lot of bigoted rubbish! - the only thing special about English is that it is the most widely spoken language in the World. Esperanto was invented with the idea of having a truly international language, but never really got off the ground. Esperanto having failed, the next currently most universal language is English > As a > language it sucks. No one can pronounce the English r, not even all > native speakers. Its spelling is a joke that not even the French > can fathom. The /real /French, in France, cannot fathom Canadian French either and friends from Paris have told me it is not French, but a dialect ... so you need not get up on your high horse about English, which differs all around the world, anyway. > And the insanity of what passes for its grammar is > legendary. > > OK, I guess I've insulted most everyone now. Time to shut up. Wise man! James -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101230/497fae85/attachment.htm>
