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Thread #37618   Message #527020
Posted By: Kim C
13-Aug-01 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Reasons why English is so hard to learn
Subject: RE: BS: Reasons why English is so hard to learn
Then there's people trying to learn English as a second language here where I live, where accents and dialect often are NOTHING like texbook English. I think Jeff Foxworthy talks about it:

Jeat yet?

Naw, yawnto?

What I'd like to know is, why do the French delight so in accusing Americans of polluting their language with our infernal English, when England is just across the channel and we are halfway around the world?

English uses a lot of French words too, and I haven't heard anyone complain of that.