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    17 hours ago

    In confused by you saying that french verb conjugation is all three of: mostly incomplete, powerful and hard to learn. Did you mean inconsistent rather than incomplete?

    Would German make a better lingua franca?

    I’m told sanskrit is pretty logical.

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      4 hours ago

      Oh, is was taking about English. Sorry it wasn’t clear.

      German is quite hard grammatically, with its dative case and inconsistent use of genders for non gendered things. It’s got some phonemes that are quite hard for adult learners too. The one thing it’s got going for a lingua franca is the consistent pronunciation rules.

      Don’t know anything about Sanskrit. Sounds interesting.