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To: big black dog

english is not an easy language to learn.

but it is a bastard language, you can do with it what you will
; english expands continuously.

si.


5 posted on 10/28/2008 6:34:35 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: ken21
So does Russian, principally by the very same appropriation of other languages' words as does English. To shave: native Russian, bruitcya, or, adapted, ''shavovat' ''. (shrug),. Who cares?

Hell's bells, every English or French speaker knows several hundreds of words of modern Russian due to this linguistic practice, even if said speaker is unaware that he does know them. Salat, restoran, stadion, limon, kafye, all mean exactly what you think they do, among hundreds of other words.

Note: I have transliterated, above, 'ui' for the Russian letter 'uri' here, as well as a simple '' ' '' for the Russian letter whose name is pronounced ''myakie znak''. If this is not a suitable transliteration to Russophiles, my apologies. Deal with it.

What's your point here? EVERY useful modern non-ideographic language grows in the same way...just some more quickly than others. The languages that deal, and will deal, most efficiently with the inevitable order-of-magnitude expansion of new (especially technological) terms will be the languages that will be adopted by more and more people in future. This lets out, for example, French from the concept of usefulness going forward, btw; the Academie still attempts to prohibit the ''evils'' of Franglais.

Bloody dinosaurs.

40 posted on 10/28/2008 7:51:32 PM PDT by SAJ
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