Patrick Andries wrote: > [...] I do firmly believe that foreign > loan-words taken with their original spelling (geüpdatet in Dutch or > week-end in French) upset the native spelling rules. I am not against > loan-words if they are useful (used and well-accepted), but I am for > their blending into the native spelling system.
Funny: I have just read a similar but opposite opinion on an Italian newsgroup. Somebody said: if really we must accept English terms such as "file" or "window", we should at list do the effort of pronouncing them according to Italian spelling: /'file/ and /vin'dOv/, rather than /'fail/ or /'windo:/. > A way to say welcome. Uhmm... I hope such way of saying welcome will never be applied to humans. In the case I move to China, I would not like to have my hair painted black and my eyes shape modified with surgery. :-) _ Marco
