> I wonder though why french is that complicated, Mostly simple really: 1) French has a long history so a long time to accumulate warts 2) (nearly) each time,

> I wonder though why french is that complicated, Mostly simple really: 1) French has a long history so a long time to accumulate warts 2) (nearly) each time, someone tries to remove some of these warts, purists scream loudly. Why politicians listen to purists instead of thinking that reducing French's complexity could help foreign people learning French is the thing I wonder though..