Re: Origin of English?

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From: Joerg Knappen
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:55

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In article <10182@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil>, matt@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Matt Rosenblatt) writes:
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:And thanks to all those French- and Latin-type Romance words,
:an Englishman often has two or three ways to say something that
:a German, Dutchman, or Afrikaner on the one hand or a Mexican,
:Brazilian or Frenchman on the other hand may have only one way
:to say.  We've got more words than any other Germanic language.  
:We've got more words than any other Indo-European language.  
:In fact, we've got more words than any other language, period.
:That's another of the special virtues that English has.  
:

Maybe you should have a closer look on hindi :-). Its complex vocabulary with 
an own stock, borrowings from sankrit, persian, arabc and dravidian languages
as well as portugese and english makes it even better than english in this
respect.

--JK

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