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Re: English as a Global Language

#847 10/21/00 01:25 PM

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this too shall pass

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this too shall pass

antonio, you make some good points; but you'd do better by losing the '40 words for snow' example. it's an urban legend. I've seen the list and half the words relate to ice, and the rest can be attributed to a language that forsakes adjectives.

http://www.arctic.ca/LUS/Snow&Ice.html

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