Yoghurt wrote...

Shampoo:  <I just can't stand the way their stupid language doesn't have
enough inflections...

I think you have this reversed. Chinese doesn't have inflections.

I like the back and forth maxims.

Nanda?  Waitaminnit...  Zen is confused here....

Chinese is the language where "ma" has like twelve different meanings,
differentiated by *nothing* more than tonality and inflection....

How can you say that there are no inflections?

By comparison, Japanese is positively *monotone*...

Zen the Heretic-