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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re:  Re: Easy languages
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 04:56:32 EST
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>Even in English, which unfortunately lacks a lot of the necessary
>grammatical machinery, ... - Thomas

    What necessary machinery does English lack?

    Grammatical gender? Declension? Nominal classifiers?
    Polite 2nd person pronouns? Adjective inflections?

    English does quite well without such cruft!

-michael