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04-29-2002 02:36 PM ET (US)
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I couldn't read the website (type smaller than my eyes will read) so although I have an interest in this subject, I didn't follow up.
If you DO have an nonspoof interest, I recommend "Language Myths" edited by Laurie Bauer & Peter Trudgill, Penguin Books 1998, ISBN 014-02-6023-4. It's a collection of essays on 21 common myths about language. Myth 7 is "some languages are harder than others" by Lars-Gunnar Andersson.
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04-24-2002 01:52 PM ET (US)
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Just to make sure everyone is on the same page: the article is a joke, a spoof, a jape of the sort that used to appear in the lamented Journal of Irreproducible Results. Enjoy the parody of academic referencing ("Alcuin 800"!).
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04-24-2002 06:50 AM ET (US)
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It seems most of the people making references to incomprehensible languages are referring to languages in alternate alphabets: Greek, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, etc, which would of course be extra-hard to decipher. I don't know why the Germans find Spanish so difficult, though. :)
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