[Indic-computing-users] Re: [PRC] Re: LINK-INDIANISATION: Bharateeya-OpenOffice

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, David Lloyd-Jones wrote:


> Of course I hope you all realise that any language that gets 
> computerised is also going to get a huge influx of Anglicisms. A whole 
> younger generation will grow up using "connect," "log," "crash," and a 
> thousand other computerish terms in their everyday speech, no matter 
> what script it is written in.
>  
> I think this is fine. It hasn't hurt Hebrew any to be re-created as a 
> modern language complete with aircraft, computers and modern physics and 
> chemistry. Still, you should be ready for a certain amount of resistance 
> and objection from people who don't want this to happen to the "purity" 
> of their cultures.
>  
>                                                                     -dlj.
>  
> 
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