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Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, March 28, 1999, 3:57
Lars Henrik Mathiesen scripsit:

> (Personally, I get irritated when Danes pepper their speech with > English terms and translation loans, when perfectly acceptable Danish > words and collocations exist. I see it as a form of intellectual > bankruptcy when they don't even try to remember what language they're > speaking).
There is a book called _The Queen_, which I have never read, but which I am told purports to list the most extreme members of various classes. According to the book, "the queen of affectations" is that of pretending to have forgotten your own language. "Speak French when you can't think of the English for a thing: it saves time." --Alice in Wonderland -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.