On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:22:12 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:34:21 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:38:01 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

~~ snippity snip ~~

Remember the French language wars of the early '70s? French good,
English bad? Then they discovered that the France French they'd been
speaking for the past 200 or so years isn't French at all but an
amalgation of Basque, Spanish and English leading to purifying the
language by, and I loved this bit, sending French teachers to rural
Louisiana to learn "true" French.

Now that's pretty black and white in terms of culture isn't it? :)

Actually, it is both black and white and nuanced. Think about it.

I have - there is no nuance in a dead language that can't grow and
expand with the addition of new "foreign" words. It's just not
possible.

Gotcha. You're thinking black and white and no nuance in terms of the
"fixated" culture. I'm thinking of the nuances in thinking brought about
by the search itself.

Wha?

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

Later,

Tom