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In article <mailman.987630149.8017.python-list at python.org>,D-Man  <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote:...>Only in English.  In other languages (Spanish comes to mind, I don't>really know any others but AFAIK all Romance languages are identical>in this regard) the verb changes to indicate the subject.  I belive>this comes from the time (~1044 AD) when the Norman French invaded>England.  At that time the smart (rich) people spoke French while the>uneducated (poor) people spoke English.  As a result of the English>speakers being uneducated and spread out the language evolved to>become closer to slang and varied from region to region.  Sometime>after the french were no longer ruling the writers of the time began...This is a vulgarization of the "English as creole" hypothesisI learned and believed a long time ago (along with a few tech-nical errors on which other posters commented).  I think there'snow no good reason to believe this (that English "became closerto slang" as a result of the Norman conquest).  <URL:http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LingWWW/LIN101-102/NOTES-102/Socio8.html >readably makes the case, the high point of which I'll summarizehere in engineering terms:  we have considerable evidence thatEnglish was on a trajectory before and after Norman influence thatdoes not require a "shock" to explain.-- Cameron Laird <claird at NeoSoft.com>Business:http://www.Phaseit.netPersonal:http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html

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