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Thread #106570 Message #2203822
Posted By: Rapparee
28-Nov-07 - 09:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is Your Grammar Up To Date?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Your Grammar Up To Date?
I have no problem at all using a language with its roots in Indo-European, Arabic, Latin, Choctaw, French, German, Dutch, Norse, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, Hindi, Pushti, Urdu, Polynesian, Anglo, Saxon, P-Celt, Greek, Q-Celt, Welsh, Apache, Basque, Navajo, Spanish, and, for all I know, Klingon and Martian.
English is a vibrant, growing, language -- unlike Latin, for example, where the "new" words are forced constructs.
The French Academy might roil and fume, but the language as used by the people uses "le weekend" and not "fin de semaine." They either fight a losing battle or will have a dying language.