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- unlike attempts to museify languages such as French - to keep French 'pure'. That is the death knell - museums only hold inanimate objects.
totally seconded Sven, as far as French is concerned. According to the official French wordbook we should write mél instead of mail. Isn't that pathetic ?

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill
by Agnes a Paris on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 06:52:27 AM EST
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How is it in Polish, by the way?

The French practice is not undifferent from the Hungarian, often-used English (and German and Latin) words are Hungarianised in spelling. This is partially the case in Germany, too - tough there is a more recent trend of the opposite, excessive Anglicisms. There are even English-stemmed word creations that make no sense to a native English speaker (this is lampooned as Neudeutsch).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 06:58:17 AM EST
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