>Ah, but that is the beauty of the English language. It is dynamic >and adaptive to new concepts and and new manifestations of laziness. > In contrast, no offense intended to the French as a people and >culture, but I feel they are in danger of their language becoming >stilted and unusable because of an obsession with purity. On the part of the stuffy French; the "hip" French have an obsession with English that might be just as dangerous to their language. -- Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu>, 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/