From: Mitch Tishmack <idylls@...>
Date: 2005-09-02T11:32:52+09:00
Subject: Re: I think that French verb conjugation is as simple as, if not simpler than, that of English (no kidding!) - see www.sixpourcent.com

Bruce Willis said it best in the Fifth Element.

Look lady, I only speak two languages, English and Bad English.

I will try to not stray too much further from being on topic. But I  
couldn't pass up a Fifth Element quote. :)

Mitch


On Aug 30, 2005, at 6:28 PM, James Britt wrote:

> Jeremy Henty wrote:
>
>> In article <m3oe7frwn3.wl%jupp@gmx.de>, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:
>>
>>> English has a huge vocabulary and a rather complex grammar but few
>>> understand (leave alone make use of) any of the more advanced
>>> features.
>>>
>> English!  The Perl of natural language!
>> (Didn't someone say that the easiest language in the world is Broken
>> English?)
>>
>
> I recall an interview of John Irving by Gunter Grass, where Grass  
> asserts that Bad English is the international language of the future.
>
> James
>
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