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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (35563)	7/1/2003 10:31:35 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) of 74559

It would also be really convenient for me if everyone used English, You mean American of course right, but I digress ;o) I cringe listening to sportscasters here using sked for schedule as if they didn't sound idiotic enough already with all the stupid euphemisms for winning. Now reporting politics here I hear newscasters using the ledge instead of legislature.. I really have to disagree here. I think English is a lazy language, becoming more so and more imprecise to boot. Unless of course you are talking about a law or worse still a contract. Maybe if English weren't so vague and full of holes these things could be spelled out in plain English instead of convoluted tomes of boring prose (like mine here). Then again maybe the Mandarin is no better; I don't know yet ;o) As to the French well. Folks here are always bastardizing French names so I guess that is becoming irrelevant too. No one pronounces even 'deja vu' properly. It always comes out as 'deja vous'. regards Kastel EDIT You can also imagine that as productivity makes people redundant an easy language for common tasks makes the remainder of the brain redundant .... I'm fading here .... oh no,,,

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