[Wikipedia-l] Edits by project and country of origin

Tue Sep 5 14:16:15 UTC 2006

On 9/4/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> maru dubshinki wrote:
>
> >On 9/4/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>maru dubshinki wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 9/4/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>It depends on what you mean by a simple language. English is second
> >>>>only to Chinese in its simplicity.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Oh, c'mon. That old prejudice? Is English really more complex than
> >>>Japanese, or Sumerian and Akkadian and Sanskrit? I greatly doubt it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Huh? I think you misread what I said.
> >>
> >>
> >Apparently. Chinese is far from simple, so the only logical way I
> >could read it was as sarcasm and understatement. What did you mean?
> >
> By virtue of their historic development and grammar English and Chinese
> are linguistically among the simplest languages.  Why would you say that
> Chinese is not simple?
>
> Ec
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Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

I know, because I have Chinese class in about two and a half hours and I've
been trying to comprehend the textbook (it's all in Chinese) for the last
week and I'm still only about four and a half paragraphs in. :-)

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