saluton

On 05/21/2017 11:16 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

I have mused about this myself.  The most curious thing is that English
is not even consistent with itself here.

if you expect a language to be consistent, learn esperanto.

english is a mélange of bad habits, ancient history and colonial leftovers ... it is trivially easy to find internal contradictions and all the irrationality between elements that you would find in a junk drawer.

but don't let me stop you- it helps to distract from the orange strongman-wannabe ...