Sveltje:
But then - resistance is part of evolution, too, isn't it? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> - you have my full sympathy in there <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> - I'm resisting Kanak-Sprach and will go down gloriously <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
Kiya <lingo-dinosaur>
Sveltje:
@Kiya: Commercials may be silly (and they are... ), but what about signs in department stores, for example? My grandmother wouldn't be able to find her way around one anymore.
True, this is a problem - and part of the "civilisation-evolution" as well. Keeping a language is a glass case for preservation is the death of living language. After the War of 30 yrs, when Germany was down - after Napoleon => the German language had changed as well. Just take the Duden and its spelling reform, taking up new words etc. => The German Society for Preservation of the German language would have died a 1000 deaths, if these members would still be alive and see how everything has changed. It's a "natural" process IMO, more natural than Esperanto.
