Re: Please learn English

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From: M. Murray
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 00:00

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Melanie Oerter (Oerter@studm.hrz.uni-siegen.de) wrote:
: m9548@abc.se (Kjell Rehnstroem) wrote:
: 
: Interesting! I never heard of interlingua before, but I could easily
: understand what you wrote. I just don't know why exactly. My mother
: tongue is German, but I speak French and a little Italian and Spanish.
: Is it really easy to learn, if you don't speak any romance language?
: Or if you never learnt Latin?
: 

But can you write it? Reading languages (like Interlingua) related to 
languages you know (French, Latin, or even English) is always much, much 
easier than writing. Io pote auxsi attemptare scribere en Interlingua, 
but it would probably be rubbish. Comprehensible rubbish, but still 
rubbish. 

Remember that the Latin vocabulary assimilated into non-Romance 
European languages is very large indeed. Official English looks more like 
Latin than German, hence the phrase "call a spade a spade, not an 
agricultural implement".

: 

-- 
Martin Murray :: School of Chemistry, Bristol University, BS8 1TS, England

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From: comm@zeus.bris.ac.uk (M. Murray)
Subject: Re: Please learn English
Date: 1996/12/24
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