> Did you miss the ";)" at the bottom of my post? Maybe. But it doesn't matter: the whole discussion is a joke :-).
I just find it interesting to see how Anglophiles can care about their language, while we get spoilt with anglicisms. Worst of all some of them find their way into our language in a completely false way. Take eg. the Saxon genetiv (is this what you call it?) "'s". It's used in any place now where you would put a single S: plurals, verbs ending in an s etc. It's so stupid I found myself using it too :-/. I remember my German teacher giving me a lesson after I had used it in a genetive (where it would have been correct at least in English). Ever since I try to avoid it. And this must have been almost... gee, I'm getting old. AFAIK only the French try to fight back by law, forcing any English slogan, ad, phrase or whatever to be translated. Which on the other hand sometimes looks odd. "Computer" seems so globally accepted, I was very much surprised I had to learn "ordinateur" in French. Michael _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
