From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: "Larry Elmore" Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/20 Message-ID: <653dpp$6e4@netra.montana.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 291170335 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <3473723c.200248081@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <34737E7F.9D5@mWilden.com> <3475921d.208410468@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <650e6p$ahv$1@darla.visi.com> <651fpg$ngu$2@route1.mdrf.france3.fr> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Organization: montana.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Boyd Roberts wrote in message <651fpg$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