From: Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Date: Mon Apr 13 1998 - 00:11:35 MDT
Erik Moeller wrote:
> ... as I dig into Japanese, I find that it offers many advantages to
> other languages, with the drawback of unnecessary politeness verbs.
> (It is, in many aspects, more simple than English, you don't have to
> worry about pronouns so much.)
Years ago I jotted down some features that I might want to design into a
language -- and later found that Japanese has most of them. Now, if
only something could be done about those homophones ...
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