--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:

>
> Giving him the benefit of the doubt by supposing he only meant

"speech sounds," English has (under the usual analysis) 43 phonemes.
And that's hardly an excessively large number.

>
> The guy is simply a conlang hobbyist who has no more claim on our

attention than any other.

But I was enjoying his claim that English speakers had superhuman
abilities :)