Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

What about natives? The loss of gender makes English a lot easier to
learn for its natives, but I'm sure it did not occur for foreigners'
benefit. I think you're greatly overmagnifying the importance of
foreigners for the development of a language. Just my opinion.

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Never forget what the central issues about a language are the substrates and
the non native speakers.
They actually run that particular language. Native speakers are by-standers.
This is the Dane Law principle.

A.