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[John <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:

> Randall R Schulz wrote:
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> > Kevan,
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> > On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:30, Kevanf1 wrote:
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> > > I sometimes wonder how many people actually realise that English,
> > > spoken all over the world, is actually derived from ancient Germanic
> > > languages.
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> > English (as spoken all over the world) is the biggest mutt of a language 
> > ever (and I love it). It has roots or strong influences from languages 
> > of the British Isles, Northern Europe, French, Latin, Greek and even 
> > Arabic. The French influence from the Norman conquests gave English its 
> > horse-of-a-different-color vowel scheme.
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> Those Normans are, in fact, Norse who had been in France for many years.
> It really Gauls a lot of people to hear it called "French".  ;-)
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It sounds like a communication problem. Do we use ASTERIX (et OBELIX) 
for telephony?