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From:Kelly Ilia <halbritter -at- EDCVAX -dot- DNET -dot- GE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 1 Jul 1994 16:56:20 EDT
re: standards - sort of
In response to Andreas Ramos' commentary on the disuse of the French language,
I had to emerge from lurking in the shadows of this board.
Andreas, I share your hostility for governments policing language. However,
have you ever read Beowulf in the original text? Does Anglo-Saxon, the
"original" English, even remotely resemble Modern English?
No it does not, because languages adapt and mutate, hence the expression "living
language". IMHO, adaptation does not equal obsolescence.
