This turned out to be funnier than I had even intended: Howard: "If you want to learn a language well, there are much easier languages. But to learn it poorly, English is a good choice. And of course, it is ubiquitous." Shawn (commenting on how easy communication is in English even if used poorly): "What is a 'ubiquitous' mean?" Def #1: "Nifty" (this may have been a joke) Def #2: "Easily Corruptible" Def #3: "Widespread" Def #4: "It means that everybody knows what the words mean" I got kicked in the head by how truly difficult (and possibly non-ubiquitous) the English language is. Perhaps the words themselves are ubiquitous (although this is a matter of degree), but definitions are resistant to dissemination. And they are malleable. And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm going to use "ubiquitous" as "nifty" from now on. Shawn