Boyd Roberts wrote in message <651fpg$ngu$2@route1.mdrf.france3.fr>...
>In article <650e6p$ahv$1@darla.visi.com>, seebs@plethora.net (Peter
Seebach) writes:
>>
>>English has a wide variety of consonant clusters, and happily adopts
>>words from nearly any other language; this has been a great strength
>>for it.
>>
>That is hardly an argument.  If you try hard enough you can do it
>in any language.  Take French:
>
>   CD   == c�d�
>   mail == m�l


The key words being "If you try hard enough..." That's a _long_ ways from
happily adopting anything that comes along that makes sense! Isn't it France
that's fighting a losing campaign to preserve the "purity" of the French
language from the "pollution" of foreign words and phrases? Kind of ironic
considering French is essentially a bastardization of Latin with some other
stuff mixed in...

>Yes, they are serious.

That's what makes it all the more comical to the rest of us...

Larry