highdudgeon;157221 Wrote: > That's an interesting point. The same goes for the US, too -- we're > absorbing a healthy dose of Spanish, for example, and I'm sure that is > leading down a different course. One of the beauties of English, > though, is precisely the fact that it absorbs or accomodates different > languages. There are more pidgins -- sixty-odd -- of English than of > any other language. > >
English has been under the influence of many languages from before it was even English! Even us vikings have done our part! I guess that makes it more difficult to express us in English at times, because it sounds right to us, but it actually isn't... -- tomsi42 SB3, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, dynaBel Exact, Kimber Kable 4TC and Timbre. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomsi42's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2477 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29972 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
