Patrick Andries wrote:
> [...] I do firmly believe that foreign
> loan-words taken with their original spelling (geüpdatet in Dutch or
> week-end in French) upset the native spelling rules. I am not against
> loan-words if they are useful (used and well-accepted), but I am for
> their blending into the native spelling system.
Funny: I have just read a similar but opposite opinion on an Italian
newsgroup. Somebody said: if really we must accept English terms such as
"file" or "window", we should at list do the effort of pronouncing them
according to Italian spelling: /'file/ and /vin'dOv/, rather than /'fail/ or
/'windo:/.
> A way to say welcome.
Uhmm... I hope such way of saying welcome will never be applied to humans.
In the case I move to China, I would not like to have my hair painted black
and my eyes shape modified with surgery. :-)
_ Marco
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