You wrote "As for simplification of the English language Fifi- you are a second language English speaker and you shouldn't be filling your head with all this or voice an opinion either way. "

It is precisely BECAUSE I am an ESL learner that I have the absolute right to ask for the simplification of the English language, Taffy. It is HARD to learn. We are billions of people on earth who are sharing this same problem. We all have the right to ask for simplification.

Ask whom? That's something I have to fill my head with.

I feel some paternalism in your "tone of voice" Taffy: you seem to feel that native English speakers are superior, right? I will stop typing before I get an [edited]