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Post #564522

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darth_ender
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Rule breakers: "'I' before 'E' except after 'C,' and words that sound 'A' as in neighbor and weigh." Provide only one per post.
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Date created
15-Feb-2012, 4:13 PM

LOL.

I took a class at the University of Arizona in...2007 I think, and it was one of the most fascinating classes I ever took called "The History of the English Language."  It was so cool and went all the way back to Proto-Indo-European and covered the phonetic changes over the millennia till coming to the present day.  I remember learning why we spell so many words the ways we do and the various influences upon our language.  Such a cool class!  I remember my teacher discussing the various "advantages" of several different languages, and I asked him, "What might be an advantage of the English language?"  He responded that no other language could express feelings with the depth and specificity that English can.  It may be obnoxious as a second language, but native speakers have what I believe to be the richest lexicon in the world to convey our ideas.

We are certainly heirs to a grand linguistic heritage.