1 min readJun 4, 2020
I love the English language. It is indeed a strange melting pot, but it's been sitting on the stove for so long that the stew has reduced to its essence. A lot can be expressed with very few words. Unlike French for example - beautiful in its own way but grammatically convoluted to the point of comedy. I say this as native speaker who lost a fair bit of it after years in the UK and who recently had to start using it again for work. It's an uphill battle...
Did you see that viral rant from a New York cabbie about French numbers? It applies to almost every other aspect of French. To use a colloquialism, check it out!
