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.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:00,
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up to a point.
someone drew a graph of it for me once.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:11,
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American English is supposed to be "simpler",
but it's only really morphologically simpler, which is just stupid.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:15,
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