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Wednesday, January 24, 2001
# 2:39:00 PM :
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The mutability of language
Countries such as France (and provinces including Québec) have official agencies to preserve the "purity" of their language. English has no such authority, and, I would argue, is richer for it.
Still, it does get mangled in creative ways sometimes, and not just by people like me who work in marketing.
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