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Subject: Oh dear, there is no such language as English, we must all revert to Latin.


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Dave (UK)
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Date Posted: 23:36:22 11/08/04 Mon
In reply to: Random Jock 's message, ""English words creeping in" aren't you joking Dave - they're NOT English!" on 17:09:14 11/08/04 Mon
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Ian (Australia)
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Date Posted: 12:22:33 11/09/04 Tue
"Television" is not English? You really ought to try and make some distinction between Greek and Latin *words* and words invented from Greek and Latin *roots*. "Television" is quite obviously an English word.

To be consistent, you should also seek out the roots of these Greek, Latin and other words that you post as if they had simply been invented one Friday afternoon by a committee of linguists. They also came from somewhere.

English a mongrel tongue? Absolutely! Borrowing words is what all living languages do. You say English is "the worst borrower of the lot": I would have thought the case could be made for it being the *best* borrower of the lot!

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Ed Harris (Back in Shropshire)
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Date Posted: 12:30:34 11/09/04 Tue

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