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Thread #64362   Message #1052188
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
12-Nov-03 - 03:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: official language of united Europe
Subject: RE: BS: official language of united Europe
Pidgin English as spoken in Papua-Niugini. Its orthography was fixed by German missionaries when translating the Bible and is truly German. So this proud people has a hand in also. For the benefit of our even prouder neighbours we could add all words concerning love and wine.
But to stop the jokes: While Latin (which I should prefer) is a synthetic language needing an elaborate morphology, English has changed to an analytic language which can discard most of its morphology. That will be the winner in the end.

Wilfried