Re: Edmonton Eskimos

"Father Guido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:54:52 GMT, "Woody Tobias Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >"Chuck Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> German + French = English
> >
> >Germanic based with a dose of French words. It is by no means based on
the
> >French language and is not on the Romantic branch. It just has a bunch of
> >words that are borrowed from the French language.
> >
>
> Why is it when there is already a good word in wide use, English
> will pick it up, I.e. restaurant, cafeteria, etc. But when a word
> doesn't exist in French, they refuse to use a single word in wide
> use, that they would easily adapt to, and insist on creating a
> sentence, or several French words to describe something, rather than
> represent that something?
>
> Are they that effing concerned their culture will die?

Yes.