Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

Lars Henrik Mathiesen scripsit:

> (Personally, I get irritated when Danes pepper their speech with
> English terms and translation loans, when perfectly acceptable Danish
> words and collocations exist. I see it as a form of intellectual
> bankruptcy when they don't even try to remember what language they're
> speaking).
There is a book called _The Queen_, which I have never read, but
which I am told purports to list the most extreme members of various
classes.  According to the book, "the queen of affectations" is that
of pretending to have forgotten your own language.

"Speak French when you can't think of the English for a thing: it
saves time."
        --Alice in Wonderland

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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban.