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Originally Posted by Xenophon
@HarryT -- It's those constant thefts of vocabulary from the rest of the world.
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Yes, absolutely! I think that's one of the strengths of English, the fact that it's happy to "steal" from other languages when it needs a new word. If you have a situation like in France, where there is an official body to protect the "purity" of the language, and the government passes laws to try to "ban" the use of foreign words; that seems like a sign that a language is "in trouble" to me.