Philip Hart wrote:
> Damn, found me out. Just for the record, I'm also responsible
> for the quirks in German writing ("rad fahren"? following weird
> non-German spelling conventions for foreign words like "spaghetti"?)
> up until the recent silly reorganization. I also should be blamed
> for the past subjunctive in French, and the hard non-latin words in
> Spanish, and the initial "s" as a negative in Italian. (And sort of
> the lack of punctuation in Latin.)
>
> Mark is responsible for the problems in the other living languages.
>
> I blame you for the problems in extinct languages. And "inconsistancies".
Esperanto isn't extinct yet, I swear it!
Though yeah, I'll admit I added a few "inconsistancies"
to the languages used in Susa, on the Tigris River, and
Sumer. How was I to know my contributions would lead
to their extinction?
<sigh>
Chris (Avoiding work again:)