Kris is perfectly right, it's obviously satire. So Twain must have seen this coming.
On 6/17/10, Ethan Grammatikidis <eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On 17 Jun 2010, at 10:43, Mate Nagy wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0200, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma >> wrote: >>>> English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic [...]. A >>>> bit like C++ to C, >>>> really. >>> You made my day. >> then i suggest reading this article: >> http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html > > Mark Twain is always a pleasure to read, but I think the general > practice of the English language has become considerably more > "slipshod and systemless" since his time. > > -- > Complexity is not a function of the number of features. Some features > exist only because complexity was _removed_ from the underlying system. > > >
