Al salaam a'alaykum Charles

23 Jul 03 19:31, Charles Angelich wrote to David Drummond:

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

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

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

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

 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 that
 CA> have survived with no Latin-based derivatives. I don't think
 CA> the Japanese (for instance) would miss Latin at all. 

Yeah, but how many USAians want to speak Japanese?

Regards,
David

--- Msged/LNX TE 06 (pre)