Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 18:50:07 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <p05111702b9156e964b77@[10.0.1.11]> In-Reply-To: <20020525131723.GA3092@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <p0511171eb910959a28f6@[10.0.1.4]> <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> <p0511170eb9127dabc846@[10.0.1.8]> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> <p05111701b9153139e9ea@[10.0.1.11]> <20020525131723.GA3092@lpt.ens.fr>
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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.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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