>>You could have fooled me (that English is not your first language). I am in awe before many Europeans on this forum who have perfect command of written English. I wish I had the ability to learn foreign languages as well.
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>You are under an illusion that the english language can obey commands. It can't.
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>If it could, it would have become much more regular by now, at least half of the ambiguity would have been purged out of it, words wouldn't have more than just two or three meanings, you wouldn't be able to stack four or six nouns one after another and have the reader guess, from last to first, which one acts as a noun, which as an adjective and which as a verb, etc etc...
I understand your "play on words" but I personally find English (from the couple languages I know) the best for the purposes of describing events, feelings, emotions, legal documents, etc. Maybe it is because I communicate in English most of my life, raised children in English, and think in English.
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