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From: Mike Bugge <>
Subject: Re: Why should you. :)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 07:52:47 +1000
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wrote:

> Sorry Elin ,I spoke in jest.You shouldn't change anything.
> I have always been amazed how Norwegian' the lanuage' is alive and
> evolving. Some countries fight to avoid new words unless they can be
> described in their own words.
> I think we want to understand and sometimes we try to explain things using
> our own English words and that as we have heard can be difficult.
> I only wish my parents had taught us Norwegian. But as you heard most took
> the approach that if you were to be a Canadian ,as I am , you must speak
> English. I am not sure why it had to be exclusive.

Not wishing to start a "range war", or any more "List flames and fights",but,
historically, of course, we're looking at the European Continent Wars of the
French Revolution and Napoleon's Imperialistic gaols.

Canada (and also Australia - chap called La Perouse, now a Sydney suburb), could
be, under differing circumstances, be French-speaking Nations.

I doubt very much if they'd have thought of the concept of a "Commonwealth of
Sovereign Nations (all 54 of us - quite an achievement !)

The Quebec Act (1774) no doubt had some influence, especially during the
Revolutionary War and the 1812-1814 War between Great Britain and the United
States, otherwise, French would now be the Lingua Franca (no pun !) of the
World.

Mike Bugge (Buggé)

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