>>Ablative is, imho, simply not explainable, and should never have been coined for use in a civilised language.
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>You know the conversation is getting too long when someone starts calling English a civilized language :)

I know what you mean. In fact this morning around 3:45am as I was shovelling snow off the driveway before getting ready for work, I was thinking about the fact that English is just not a rich enough language to express how much I hate winter. ;)