(October 11, 2015 at 10:38 am)MTL Wrote:(October 11, 2015 at 4:06 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: French is a joke as a language. It only has 50,000 words.
Then what does that say about English?
Because about 40% of English is either based-upon
or borrowed directly from French.
It says nothing about English.
Just so you know -- English has roughly a million words in it.
For more insight into wordiness and the language: http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2...ting_words