From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61374
Date: 2008-11-04
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths,
Vandals, Angli and Saxones.
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> On 2008-11-04 04:29, Andrew Jarrette wrote:
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>> Thanks, I read it, and I don't know if you want any
>> feedback/commentary but I will say that this article makes the
>> Anglo-Saxons seem identity-challenged. Although I know it has nothing
>> to do with this, I nevertheless tend to think that
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>> English seems
>> destined to have become a language in which the overwhelming majority
>> of dictionary entries have foreign etymologies. I also go further and
>> wonder whether such a fundamental identity crisis could be related to
>> the current prestige that English enjoys as the most widely-spoken
>> second language
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I cannot any identity crisis !?
The richest and powerfulest language rules.
If your theorem about foreign etymologies is right,
the next candidate on the list in Turkish.
Arnaud.
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>> (if one of the Chinese languages has not taken over
>> this title). Do other nationalities have similar identity confusion
>> in their histories? (Maybe you might want to take this over to
>> Cybalist_admin.)
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> OK, it may be discussed here provided that the thread does not run
> unreasonably long.
>
> Piotr
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