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Springtime in Blighty
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26/03/2013 18:23:48
 
 
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26/03/2013 11:55:45
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Weather
Category:
Climate change
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01569201
Message ID:
01569301
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>>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...

You would have loved English in our schools! I had the same complaints back then... It's quite easy with simple sentences but then again, when and where do you read simple sentences? Most people write complex sentences :)
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