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From: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Learn Japanese or bust.
Message-ID: <418@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 13:10:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 13:10:16 1985
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Reply-To: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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Summary: 

In article <842@h-sc1.UUCP> breuel@h-sc1.UUCP (thomas breuel) writes:
>Seriously. The English language, which is considered one of the easiest
>languages in the world...
Says who???  Seriously, how can you quantify that?  By making studies of lots 
of native speakers of languages X1, X2, X3... trying to learn languages Y1,
Y2, Y3...English, where {X1, X2, X3...Y1, Y2, Y3...English} are all
unrelated languages?  I doubt whether anyone has ever done that.  (Same
comment for those who say, as I have often heard said, that English is a 
very hard language.)
-- 
Mike Maxwell
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
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