To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (790 ) 1/20/1998 9:20:00 PM From: Rambi Read Replies (1) | Respond to
You are right about "poohpooh". One simply cannot post on this thread with integrity and at the same time try to cut out a giant tennis ball from flourescent yellow poster board. And why, oh, why, is a fifteen- year-old boy cutting out a giant yellow tennis ball, you ask? Because it seems that his History project is to make a visual aid for a report on Tennis in the 20s. I kid you not. What's scarier is contemplating why he needs his mother's help to do this.Mother Tongue .) With English becoming a global language, more and more words from other languages will be absorbed, and difficult structures (I believe) will give way out of necessity to easier forms, in much the same way English went underground and evolved among the peasants in the years between 1000 and 1300, when French was the royal language of the British monarchy and nary a king spoke English.
