TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46   
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    SD> French, to me, is overly complicated for the sake of being different.    
      
   Hell, yes, it is! There's no need to decide between masculine and feminine   
   when talking about a table! It has no gender!   
      
    SD> Being a native English speaker, it can be difficult for me to learn other   
    SD> languages, especially Japanese or Mandarin Chinese (both of which I have   
    SD> attempted to learn but failed to do so).   
      
   The only languages I've ever found easy to learn are those used exclusively   
   by computers. In many ways, they're far simpler than any human language.   
      
    SD> However, my original point still stands for me as I can figure out   
    SD> phrases and keywords in both French and Italian and make a semi-educated   
    SD> guess to what's going on.  This is reading those languages; if they are   
    SD> being spoken to me, I get lost very quickly.   
      
   That's about how I am, in spoken French. I can follow along more or less, if   
   the speaker isn't rushing or mumbling, but I'd have to respond in english. My   
   written French is much better.   
      
   McDoob   
   SysOp, PiBBS   
   pibbs.sytes.net   
      
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