At 20:09 -0500 2002-01-21, Patrick Andries wrote: >Kenneth Whistler wrote: > >>>Patrick Andries wrote: >>> >> >>>I must say that I have already seen horrors such as "ge�pdated" (the "u" >>>is presumably approximated), again English messing with languages >>>spelling and pronounciation...
Languages don't mess with languages. People mess with languages. >>It isn't as if French hasn't been polluting English for a thousand >>years or anything, is it?! >> >No, no, no. French has enriched English, not polluted it, by >bestowing it a wealth of new words. I wonder if we could start the >millenium celebration of this wonderful hybridization before 2066? Yes. French has given us things like "fin de si�cle". And English has given you "le weekend". >>And nowadays, the Europeans are getting their revenge by exporting >>all their accents back onto English letters. >> >Well, the Americans are putting a pretty good fight. Can't see the >light behind fa�ade, ca�on and co�perate. Tsk tsk. Co�perate isn't very common, but na�ve is. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
