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De: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
>
> >Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial.
>
> Of course, all language is artificial.

Well, at least all new words that can be traced to someone can be so �
described �.

But one has the impression that this accusation is most often heard in
France (not in Qu�bec), I also wonder if anybody in the US said to the
inventor of email or any new word : this is artificial. It seems somewhat
nonsensical or at least tautological for any newly coined word.


P. A.





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