On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 8:04:39 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:12:27 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/26/2017 02:10 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:30:03 +0100, Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 3:23:03 PM UTC-4, rbowman wrote:
On 09/17/2017 09:42 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 9/17/2017 10:15 AM, Meanie wrote:

Yes, the English language is a mess and considered one of the hardest
languages to learn based from foreigners who attempt speaking it.

Nah, I was less than a year old and learned it like I was speaking it
all my life.

I had missed opportunities. My grandparents were from Poland but
never
spoke it to us as kids but I wish they had when it was too late. I
picked up a few words from their conversations with my parents. In
high school I was given two years of Latin but now wish I would have
fought to take Spanish as it would have helped in real life.

Yeah, I had Latin and German in high school. The 'business/shop' kids
took Spanish. They also took typing, which I've never mastered despite
close to 50 years of typing code from keypunch machines and on up. At
least words on a LCD screen are easier to fix than holes in a Hollerith
card.

Latin had been discontinued by the time I was in high school. I took
German. The 'business/shop' kids were barely required to learn English,
let along a foreign language. This was a downscale Detroit suburb in the
1970s.

On the plus side, girls were required in junior high to take two
semesters
of typing. That was the most useful thing I learned in my entire
education.

Why do you call it "shop"? A shop is a place where you sell things.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shop#Etymology

Spend enough time in a.h.r and you might develop a grasp of the English
language.

Americans can't speak English.
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Americans speak "American" which is roughly based on the English Language. It should really be renamed "American" so there will be no confusing the two. I'd hate see it confused with "Welsh". ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle American Monster