From: Ian Hobson <ian.hobson@...>
Date: 2009-08-02T09:30:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented?

Luc Heinrich wrote:
> On 1 ao�t 09, at 20:46, Ian Hobson wrote:
>
>> I guess this is because the English adopt words freely, while the 
>> French consider this act "corruption" of the language.
>
> Wrong. It's the old farts of the "Acad�mie Fran�aise" who consider 
> that adopting words freely is a "corruption" and that using English 
> words hurts the "graphie" of the French language (I kid you not), 
> while the rest of the population will happily use whatever sounds the 
> best or the coolest or helps making any message the most clear. And 
> since the aforementioned senile fucktards are the ones who decide what 
> goes in the French dictionary or not they actually have to be forced 
> by the overwhelming popular usage first, which takes time. That's why :)
>
>   
I stand corrected!

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