[Magdalen] Grammar Nightmare.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/9/2015 10:28:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Scott  K.
writes:

German's four cases are alive and allow for lots of  flexibility in the 
order of phrases in a  sentence...>>>>
 
 
 
English, for better or for worse, jettisoned case agreement in about the  
15th
century.  Old English and its predecessors like Anglo-Saxon were every  bit
as case oriented as German.
 
The resultant need for word order in order to make sense makes for
another of the nightmares that exist for those learning English as a  second
language.
 
I just read a news article that asserts the USA now has more Spanish
speakers than any country except Mexico.  This is the source of  tremendous
enrichment of English, but at the same time is a source of stress on  the
language with such phenomena as "Spanglish".
 
Maybe the Spanglish will be the USA language of the future.
 
 
 
David Strang.