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It is very logical, but as English is from a different family of languages it can seem quite alien - not to mention hideously complicated.
You can have a four-word Latin sentence that looks quite unambiguous, but depending on the combination of cases and tenses used it might have a wide range of meanings. For that reason alone, I remember it was a real pain in the arse.
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:58, archived)
It's got a lot of features that tend to disappear naturally if a language is left to its own devices,
such as semantic noun inflections. The evolution of creoles tends to favour word order based grammar, such as we have in English, I think.

I like the way Semitic languages work.
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:00, archived)
It's my contention that the more sophisticated a culture becomes the simpler its language becomes

(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:10, archived)
up to a point.
someone drew a graph of it for me once.
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:11, archived)
If there's a graph then it's Science!

(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:13, archived)
American English is supposed to be "simpler",
but it's only really morphologically simpler, which is just stupid.
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:15, archived)
I can't understand a word of that cop show they all go on about

(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:18, archived)
Newspeak doubleplusgood!

(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:16, archived)