>Is this, just perhaps, a US-centric convenience fair on the way to sucking
>the juice out of the wonders of linguistic evolution?
>--
>Ted Spencer; ted@...

It IS linguistic evolution and the strongest survive. However, I 
don't believe that it is entirely a US-centric affair because all 
languages are represented in the decision making. If they left it up 
to us (US), everyone would be speaking English with no derivations, 
eh?

tedd
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