Lol!

Honestly, ever since that "Liberty Fries" incident I wouldn't be able to say who's worse... No offence to you yanks, but "French Fries" being renamed into "Liberty Fries" all over the country AND in the congress's cafetery was one serious blow to America's rating from the side of other countries (including your neighbors up North)... It was dumb, unprovoked and I could give a million and one other adjectives that could be used to describe it... The French at the same time are only fighting for the purity of their language, which is understandable... I wonder how you guys would feel if English words would start getting replaced by French words all over USA....


Just my 2 cents from someone living neither in France or USA, feel free to flame me back

Common Dennis S., there's no such thing as purity of language.

English is gonna conquer us all.

Verry glad I stidied English at school

I wonder how you guys would feel if English words would start getting replaced by French words all over USA....

You mean USF ! united states of France

:P

Originally posted by Greywolf@Jul 19 2003, 06:02 AM
Common Dennis S., there's no such thing as purity of language.

English is gonna conquer us all.

Verry glad I stidied English at school

I don't think so. I was born in Russia, and at the moment my Russian is almost as good as any other Russian's, no matter that I was brought to Canada when I was 9. I'm pretty sure my kids will be able to speak Russian as well. All you have to do is watch after your own language and make sure your descendants get to speak it as to, since language and culture are two pretty close things... If you watch after one, the other one will stay as well.

Originally posted by irs2k3@Jul 19 2003, 06:34 AM

You mean USF ! united states of France

:P

Oooops, sorry, I actually meant EUF = Etats Unis de France

Dennis S., like it or not, English seems to be the language of international communications - see - you are not a native speaker, I'm not a native speaker too... We both speak Russian (although I am not exactly good at it), but we communicate in English (I'm going to take TOEFL on Wednesday - wish me luck, everybody! ). The Internet, movies, even videogames - everithing is in English.

I'm not saying we should forget our native lanuages, but without English we simply can't do it out there.

Oooops, sorry, I actually meant EUF = Etats Unis de France

:thumbup:

I don't agree the the whole liberty fries thing myself, but come on! Banning the term email??? How stupid is this? Maybe we should just bomb the hell out of them and then we wouldnt have to worry about them And ya know its going to get worse lol But it will make me laugh ohhh and btw, I really wouldnt care if french words invaded here I need the culture anyway

Originally posted by Greywolf@Jul 19 2003, 09:53 AM
Dennis S., like it or not, English seems to be the language of international communications - see - you are not a native speaker, I'm not a native speaker too... We both speak Russian (although I am not exactly good at it), but we communicate in English (I'm going to take TOEFL on Wednesday - wish me luck, everybody! ). The Internet, movies, even videogames - everithing is in English.

I'm not saying we should forget our native lanuages, but without English we simply can't do it out there.

Good luck m8, altho I don't think you'll need it (judging by the quality of your written English, you don't need luck to pass the test).

As for us being unable to live without English nowadays - that's absolutely correct, but it's still not a good enough reason to give up on your language... I don't think you want to give up Bulgarian and start talking only English with everyone and especially your family, do you?

Originally posted by Nxs@Jul 19 2003, 10:14 AM
I don't agree the the whole liberty fries thing myself, but come on! Banning the term email??? How stupid is this? Maybe we should just bomb the hell out of them and then we wouldnt have to worry about them And ya know its going to get worse lol But it will make me laugh ohhh and btw, I really wouldnt care if french words invaded here I need the culture anyway

Note that it was banned on GOVT. level only, regular people are still allowed to and will use the word e-mail.