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I meant as a second language not a first. And this is not just an official opinion. Many who have tried to learn it as a second language have found it so. To quote a author I quite like, "The English language is the richest language that exists. This is because it has pillaged from other languages more than any other language. All languages have pillages from other languages at some stage, but English has done this way more than any other language." This author (David Eddings has the university study to back up his claim to know what he is talking about. And with richness often comes extra complexity. This is due to the fact that a rich language tends to have more words of a similar sound or meaning, which makes things harder. Also a rich language also has words that sound the same but are spelt different and more words that sound the same (and are spelt the same or different) but mean different things. When these sorts of thimngs occur there needs to be more rules on what words to use and on things like grammer, punctuation and style. This is all true for English.
Also I give you a challenge: try to come up with words from the English language that originated in other languages or sound like they did. I'll bet few of you can come up with less than half a dozen each in a whole 24 hours. I'll even start you off: cafe, which is a perfect example.
As for who officially says it: most universities in the world and most importantly, Oxford University, which by many is considered the official source of the English language because it knows more about English than any other collection of people and because it some of the most knowledgeable (about English) professors of English. In fact did you know that a word isn't considered to be a real word until it appears in the Oxford dictionary and that once it has appeared in there it is considered a real word? Point of case: Homer Simpons "d'oh" appeared in the Oxford Dictionary for the first time 2 years ago. Before then it was considered to be a word that was a Simpon's thing and that was it. Now it's consired to be a real part of English even though it wasn't less recently than 2 years ago. Did you also know that almost all other English dictionaries are based on the Oxford Dictionary? What does that tell you about their credentials?
Also I give you a challenge: try to come up with words from the English language that originated in other languages or sound like they did. I'll bet few of you can come up with less than half a dozen each in a whole 24 hours. I'll even start you off: cafe, which is a perfect example.
As for who officially says it: most universities in the world and most importantly, Oxford University, which by many is considered the official source of the English language because it knows more about English than any other collection of people and because it some of the most knowledgeable (about English) professors of English. In fact did you know that a word isn't considered to be a real word until it appears in the Oxford dictionary and that once it has appeared in there it is considered a real word? Point of case: Homer Simpons "d'oh" appeared in the Oxford Dictionary for the first time 2 years ago. Before then it was considered to be a word that was a Simpon's thing and that was it. Now it's consired to be a real part of English even though it wasn't less recently than 2 years ago. Did you also know that almost all other English dictionaries are based on the Oxford Dictionary? What does that tell you about their credentials?
