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 "geüpdated" (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 siècle". 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 façade, cañon and coöperate. Tsk tsk.
Coöperate isn't very common, but naïve is.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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