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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9986926, member: 2844"]True. I've said it before, English is considered a 'poor' language because it has so few words compared to many other languages.</p><p>Of course English-speakers can express themselves just as well as speakers of other languages, they just have a more roundabout way of saying things. For instance they have to make clear which "set" they mean.</p><p>To us Dutch, with a 'richer' language, English sounds more poetic than our language, because Dutch has a separate word for almost everything we need to say.</p><p>German has even more words than Dutch. You guessed it, they are more precise, very German.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9986926, member: 2844"]True. I've said it before, English is considered a 'poor' language because it has so few words compared to many other languages. Of course English-speakers can express themselves just as well as speakers of other languages, they just have a more roundabout way of saying things. For instance they have to make clear which "set" they mean. To us Dutch, with a 'richer' language, English sounds more poetic than our language, because Dutch has a separate word for almost everything we need to say. German has even more words than Dutch. You guessed it, they are more precise, very German.;)[/QUOTE]
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