From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 25 17:22: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6F237B400 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C5B568148E; Sun, 26 May 2002 09:51:59 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 09:51:59 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Brad Knowles Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Martin Karlsson , Terry Lambert , Annelise Anderson , Jamie Bowden , Alexey Dokuchaev , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: French dying out? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020526095159.A58955@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020522050350.GA266@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523124604.Z45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523061551.GA237@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523155541.H230@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523063222.GA470@lpt.ens.fr> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> <20020525131723.GA3092@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 25 May 2002 at 18:50:07 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:17 PM +0200 2002/05/25, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >> France is a big country and, even outside France, French is a popular >> and admired language. An import of a few foreign words, even if >> against the wishes of the Académie, will not destroy it, any more than >> the import of all those French words over the centuries have destroyed >> English. > > 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. There's not a chance in hell that French will die off, or even become unimportant, in our lifetimes. And young people have been ignoring the Académie Française for generations. What the Académie has done is to provide fertile feeding grounds for argot. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message