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I'm really glad this thread has digressed a little off topic and
meandered along, with so many differences of opinion and no real
agreement but with everyone learning a little bit about other things
along the way, its the first time I've seem such a loose discussion in
this groups for longer than i remember, we all deserve a pat on the
back lol.

But its so true about how language differs, and one point just
recently raised was how do non English based speakers find English
easy/hard to learn compared to say French/German based languages with
more structure, well I remember at school having nothing but trouble
with french as it seems in the language the prepositions in a sentence
can be shifted completely around, so davids book is the book of david,
not to mention the masculine / feminine variety of words and the
correct use of each one, I could not get it at all, a feminine word, a
masculine word? how ... odd..

Then we get onto the other peoples of the world, I worked until some
months ago as a taxi driver, working nights, my most common run was
the university campus to the clubs in the city, and our university has
an exchange student policy with a university in china, I was amazed at
how they could master our language with ease, I dont know if any had
some previous tuition before coming here, but then I am totally amazed
when I buy a cheap piece of electronics off ebay, and the instructions
make no sense at all due to poor translation! why cant they employ
these students who are superb with the english!

As for accents, here in the UK we all have a different one just by
driving 20 miles!
One night I had someone in the back of my car who sounded like she had
a very strong accent, I believe she was from new york, as I commented
how she sounded like one of the characters off of 'friends', I dont
watch the series, wife did, I'd be at work, but I commented she
sounded like one I had seen as i was leaving the house one night, a
girlfriend of that joey character, one who had an annoying laugh, well
she flew off into a storm of abuse calling me a 'jerk' and allsorts! I
still to this day dont know why or whats wrong with the accent.