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To: BGR who wrote (19825)	3/23/2000 3:57:00 PM
From: RJL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

You wish. I just put you on ignore instead. Since I'll be spending so little time on SI now, it might as well be enjoyable. So long clown.

To: BGR who wrote (19825)	3/23/2000 4:03:00 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

OT: The French and the English Languages and Economic Globalization From the Wall Street Journal, 23 March 2000, Page 1. "......But of course. This is a country where the platoons of bureaucrates still struggle to protect the purity of the French language----mainly from English. It's an increasingly tricky quest: Economic globalization and the Internet have accelerated the incursion into French of such barbarisms as "la start-up" and "le stock-option," both of which were on a recently released Finance Ministry task-force list of commonly used terms that should be scrubbed from Francophone tongues. (The Ministry suggests callling a start-up a jeune pousse - a young plant shoot]...." Perhaps we would all get along better if we were to ask each other from time to time....Get any jeune pousse lately? Unfortunately, I have not. jttmab