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Bruce[_28_]

In article >, says...
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> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:07:57 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
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> >Nor is it actually very common in American usage. People say
"healthy".
> >I'm healthy. Broccoli is healthy. Only an idiot would be unable to
> >grasp from context that I enjoy good health and the broccoli fosters
> >good health. Oh, perhaps someone whose first language is not English,
> >but the language is full of those sorts of pitfalls.
>
> Indeed. I would hate to have to learn English as a second language.
> It must be one of the most difficult languages to learn in terms of
> inconsistencies and apparent contradictions.

All languages have that.