Re: [Epic] English and French

From: <duckrvr_at_...>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 08:48:03 -0500

At 01:24 PM 6/21/97 -0600, you wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 duckrvr_at_... wrote:
>
>> >From what I understand, the difficulty with English is the dizzying choice
>> of adjectives and adverbs to choose from. It's not too hard to learn, but
>> in the same way French verbs are ripe with meaning, an English speaker has
>> to be able to differentiate between the sometimes subtle connotative
>> differences of , just for example: thin, skinny, lithe, bony, gaunt,
>> haggard, delicate, lean, gangly, lanky, slender, slim, slight, etc, etc.
>> Even the large French-english dictionaries I've seen rarely have more than 2
>> or 3 french terms for each English term, but many English terms for the same
>> french term.
>
>Well, added to that fact is English has the largest vocabulary of
>any language in the world.

Um, isn't that what I said?

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