On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:19:35 -0400, M. Adam Davis wrote:

>...< It is so interesting that the French are so protective of their language
> that they have a ministry of language.  I can't fault them for wanting
> to have a 'pure' language (as pure as a language can be that descends
> from other languages).

That's the daft part of it - Indo-European languages are all related and all have bits they've borrowed from
each other, and from Latin and Greek.  It's ridiculous to try to "purify" any of them!

> Just a different culture, I guess.  But then, I live on Rue Willette
> Blvd.  How many ways can you say 'road' or 'street' in 'english'?

Well I have to use two of them just to give the name of my road: "Park Street Lane".  (If any burglars or
weirdos are reading this, I'm only joking, I live in the High Street!  :-)  We don't tend to use "Boulevard"
or "Parkway" in England, but off the top of my head I can think of these:  Road, Street, Lane, Avenue,
Crescent, Close, Way, Drive, Gardens, Hill, Wood, Circus, Park (Hmmm... so I have to use *three* of them to
give the name of my road! :-)

Cheers,

Howard Winter

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