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To: Wizzer who wrote (1204)	4/19/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Good morning Wissam. One of the most recent major contributors to American English Is Yiddish. There is a delightful book written by Leo Rosten called "The Joys of Yinglish" discussing this phenomenon. Some Japanese words have found their way into the language. I look forward to the infusion of Korean and South East Asian words into the language. It makes our language so rich! TTFN, CTC

To: Wizzer who wrote (1204)	4/19/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

Wissam - Odd that your dictionary omitted mention of two major branches of the Indo-European family, namely: 1) Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian) and 2) Indo-Iranian (Farsi, Kurdish, Tadjik; Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Benghali, etc.) After all, the term is INDO-European! A much smaller branch of the Indo-European family is Baltic: Latvian and Lithuanian. One of the proudest boasts of the Lithuanians is that their language is closest of all the other Indo-European languages to Ur(i.e., the original)-Indo-European. One other branch (Phyrygian)deserves mention, although there is only one surviving language in it: Armenian. I agree that learning other languages helps improve one's knowledge of English. (Winston Churchill would NOT agree, but that's a long story.) Certainly my high-school Latin was of immense help with learning English vocabulary, in that I was easily able to grasp the meaning of Latin-derived roots, prefixes, etc. Now, if I had studied Greek, that would have been even better! Studying languages that are unrelated to English also helps, in that it gives one a better understanding of the psychology and the expressive advantages/disadvantages of one's own language. Every language has its own distinct personality, and, here as elsewhere, vive la difference! jbe