Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:36:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Scientists urge people to stop using English terms


yeah that's practical, because habit is such an easy
thing to break.

gr3g

> Scientists urge people to stop using English terms 
> 
> German scientists are telling the public to stop
> using words derived from English and use French
> terms instead.
> 
> Armin Burkhardt, who heads the working group on
> language in politics, calls the project a way of
> "peaceful linguistic protest".
> 
> He is a professor at the German department at
> Magdeburg University.
> 
> In an appeal published by the committee, Burkhardt
> suggests Germans should buy billets not tickets, go
> on a rendezvous instead of a date and agree by
> saying d'accord rather than okay.
> 
> He is also calling for "formidable" to replace
> "cool" and "bonvivant" to replace "playboy".
> 
> French expressions have long been part of German,
> whereas most English expressions only entered the
> language after World War II.
> 
> The group lists about 30 French replacements for
> English expressions.
> 
> Yet, Burkhardt insists the project isn't directed
> against English-speaking countries.
> 
> "But it is meant to show that the political line of
> the French president and the German chancellor on
> Iraq have the support of the majority of the
> public."
> 
> 
> 
> 
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"It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy:  all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials


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