Re: OT: In the 'ignorance on parade' file
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 13, 2001, 6:50 |
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In a message dated 13.08.2001 05:15:49 AM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:
>claudio wrote:
>> and foreign words disturb the pureness of a langauge
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>"Pureness"? If foreign words "disturb the pureness of a language", then
>I'd say that English can't be any more impure than it already is. :-)
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::wicked grin:: eek, do I smell "linguistic nazism"?
as far as I can recall there are no "pure languages." (Quite frankly
::*snarfle* hehe, FRANKly:: even if there are such things as "pure languages"
they'd hafta be artificial or constructed . . . ROTFLMAO).
ok enuff on this lil ol' deadhorse of issue, onto other more FUN things...
"One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common is that they
make unexpected linguistic associations." - Jasia Reichardt
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