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Subject: Really


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Andrew
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Date Posted: 17:14:05 01/06/05 Thu
In reply to: Andrew 's message, "but you still don't speak it" on 16:22:41 01/06/05 Thu
 "I meant that Gaelic tends to borrow new words from English."

When a Gael talks about spaghetti is that English or not? I tend to think it's Italian. English has no word for tomatoes, bananas, potatoes, oranges, automobiles and dozens of other everyday things.
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Date Posted: 17:28:55 01/06/05 Thu

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Ed Harris (London)
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Date Posted: 17:33:13 01/06/05 Thu
I think that this ends the debate for me. All words come from somewhere. "Orange" can be traced back to arabic, along with giraffe (ziraffa) and gazelle (ghazahl). Heaven knows where "tomato" comes from. "Potato" is, presumably, a Native American word.

The point is that these exist in different forms in different languages. You might as well say that the French "Eglise" for 'church' is not French, it is Greek, because it comes from "ekklesia" meaning 'assembly'.

There was someone else on this forum who argued that English didn't really exist because 'admirable' was clearly just the Latin 'mirabile' in disguise, and other such nonsense.

Enjoy the rest of your debate - it has become a little absurd for my tastes.

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