Actually Japanese is worse, a friend of mine who lived in Japan told me that
they refer to their own language as "the Devil's Own Tongue".

Cloudshape
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From: 	Edward Liu[SMTP:mahamoti@uclink4.berkeley.edu]
Sent: 	Monday, November 25, 1996 5:38 PM
To: 	fanfic@fanfic.com
Subject: 	Re: [FFML] [Noise] Lose vs. Loose
<snip>
Of course there's a reason.  English is a damned evil language!  It's
full of words that sound exactly the same, yet have completely different
spellings and meanings.  i.e. its & it's; you're & your; there, their, &
they're; etc.

You won't find these difficulties within Romantic languages like Spanish
or French.  I can't say about Japanese, though, since I hardly know any.
<snip>
--
Edward Liu
mahamoti@uclink4.berkeley.edu