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May 23rd 2006, 07:10 PM
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Compared to what? It's got contractions, phrases that don't mean what they literally say, and a heavy amount of context is expressed in *how* it's spoken. Most other languages are not like that. Plus, English grammer is fairly mixed up compared to other languages I've studied.

Add to that more words that are spelt similar with the same or only miniscule pronunciation differences and more words that have multiple meanings, some of which aren't particularly similar. Or at least more than most languages anyway.

The rules of English can be some of the complicated and convulted rules compared to most languages. More so than most people realise. Hence my comment about "Writer's English".