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<FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>On 5/4/08 9:13 AM, "Robert Lawless" <robert.lawless@wichita.edu> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">In the nationally distributed magazine <I>Parade</I> columnist Marilyn vos Savant writes in answer to the question „Which is the easiest major language for a child to learn?‰:<BR>
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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.<BR>
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“Marilyn vos Savant” (if that is her real name) just failed my intro to linguistics without even taking it.<BR>
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Ron<BR>
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