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Hello David - 

JN>>>> They don't want their language corrupted/bastardized by
JN>>>> the inclusion of foreign words. It's nothing new;
JN>>>> they've been banning words for decades. It's too bad
JN>>>> England and the U.S. didn't do the same with french
JN>>>> words hundreds of years ago. 

DD>>> You wouldn't have any language at all if it weren't for
DD>>> the French/German/Latin/etc roots. 

CA>> And your language without those would be what? Meow? 

DD> My language? I also speak a toungue derived from the above. 

You too? A mother cat and her daughter taught me recently. The
mother taught her daughter how to make a sound like the
chirping of the birds in the trees. I had never heard a cat do
that before and find it hilarious when the kitten calls out the
wind to the birds. A neat way to insure a food supply if she
was a feral. Mother had spent most of her life living outdoors. 

JN>>>> School kids would not have to remember how to spell such
JN>>>> words as reservoir or boulevard, maneuver or oubliette. 

DD>>> Yep, all they'd have to spell would be "uuuggghh". 

CA>> Hard as it is to believe there are people and countries
CA>> that have survived with no Latin-based derivatives. I
CA>> don't think the Japanese (for instance) would miss Latin
CA>> at all. 

DD> Yeah, but how many USAians want to speak Japanese? 

According to my grandchildren Japanese has replaced Latin as
the 'recommended' elective when selecting a foreign language to
learn in high school. 

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