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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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Brad Knowles said on May 25, 2002 at 18:50:07:
> > and admired language.  An import of a few foreign words, even if
> > against the wishes of the Académie, will not destroy it

> 	It's not the importation of foreign words into French.  It's that 
> more and more younger people have stopped caring about French as 
> dictated by l'Academie Française, and the older generation will die 
> off.

Sure - but why do you doubt that French will survive?  English has
never had an Académie Anglaise, and it has survived fine.  So have
most other languages.

- Rahul

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