There is a strong feeling that pseudo-English is more user friendly than symbolic notation.

Because そう is a な-adjective, its negative form is そうじゃない, except that そうにない should be used for verbs.

[the grant] of the husbandman to the pendicler[…]was, in the earliest times of feudality, absolute and perpetual

And they’ve taken a fancy to me, Aunt said. Kitto and the others. That means they like me.