Rex's recent post shows a reason why English is a difficult language to learn. Another thought is: why do we make the world's languages (including English) difficult to learn and complicating? Why not make them easiler or simplier?
Sorry that this post is off-topic, but for those of you who like to dabble in linguistics would want to read a New York Times article on Spanish spoken in New York City.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/nyregion/05LANG.html
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I hope the article dealt with the...