[larodi]

Precisely my thought - try learning French. At some point we've been asking our teacher "but, why would they start writing so many chars (unreadable) and so many different endings". and our guess is there must've been a financial reason to do so - more chars, more money when copying manuscripts, and less chance for the common people to ever have this level of writing skills, which takes years to master.

[int_19h]

The French are so proud of their roots, they insist that for every French word you learn, you also learn its entire etymological development all the way back from Vulgar Latin.