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[Ronald Kephart]

On 5/4/08 9:13 AM, "Robert Lawless" <robert.lawless at wichita.edu> wrote:

> In the nationally distributed magazine Parade columnist Marilyn vos Savant
> writes in answer to the question „Which is the easiest major language for a
> child to learn?‰:
> 
> Probably Spanish, because the grammar is mostly regular, the spelling is
> straightforward, and the words are easy to pronounce.  But for an adult who
> just wants to be bilingual--and doesn‚t mind not being understood at
> parties--you could learn Taki-Taki (spoken in Suriname).  It has only a few
> hundred words.  By contrast, English has the most words of any language: about
> 250,000.
> 
> Any comments?

“Marilyn vos Savant” (if that is her real name) just failed my intro to
linguistics without even taking it.

Ron


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