SC - spelling please
Ted Eisenstein
Alban at delphi.com
Mon Feb 5 10:32:44 PST 2001
>Actually, the English bastardization of the word
>should have no bearing... it is a French word, for
>which there is no plural difference. When you speak
>the word, whether you are in France or the U.S., you
>are speaking a French word, and it's context should be
>respected.
Yeah, except that English takes into itself quite a few
foreign words and adopts them for its own nefarious purposes.
At what point does a borrowed foreign word acquire native
rights?
(Unlike French, of course, which refuses to acknowledge that
foreign words can be just as good as its own verbiage. . . )
....and we're straying far off the purpose of this list.....
Alban, who'll shut up now on this subject
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