From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 25 17:23:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275DB37B405 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4F4CB81469; Sun, 26 May 2002 09:53:42 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 09:53:42 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Greek dying out? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020526095342.B58955@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020523061551.GA237@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523155541.H230@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523063222.GA470@lpt.ens.fr> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> <20020525131723.GA3092@lpt.ens.fr> <20020525181133.GA1210@lpt.ens.fr> <20020525195704.GA92081@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020525195704.GA92081@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 25 May 2002 at 22:57:05 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-05-25 20:11, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >> Brad Knowles said on May 25, 2002 at 18:50:07: >>>> and admired language. An import of a few foreign words, even if >>>> against the wishes of the Acad?mie, will not destroy it >> >>> It's not the importation of foreign words into French. It's that >>> more and more younger people have stopped caring about French as >>> dictated by l'Academie Fran?aise, and the older generation will die >>> off. >> >> Sure - but why do you doubt that French will survive? English has >> never had an Acad?mie Anglaise, and it has survived fine. So have >> most other languages. > > I will agree that languages do not die that easily. The way I see it, > it is more likely that a different ``French'', which accepts and > extends parts of other languages, will be the outcome of all that Brad > describes. Younger people are in contact with people from all over > the world, and are constantly changing their manners, the way they > speak. > > On a similar subject, a lot of articles in the Greek press are quick > in their judgement of this, stating that young people "will eventually > kill the language". I am a bit more optimistic. The language will > improve, it will evolve & mutate, change, be extended, and continue > the long process that started thousands of years ago. This is far > from "the death" of the language. This is evolution :) Of all the languages I know, Greek is the second closest to what it was 2,500 years ago. Evolution will go towards harmonizing the language with other European languages. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message