The point is that the reason for trouble here is that English is _not_ making a morphological distinction. Since most European languages do make more of a disti

The point is that the reason for trouble here is that English is _not_ making a morphological distinction. Since most European languages do make more of a distinction, speakers of European languages should be _more_ confused. Of course many non-European languages make distinctions as well, although the most spoken of all (the various Chinese languages) don't, just as English. Basically, there's little reason to expect a Czech speaker to find this any easier than a Japanese speaker.