XPost: soc.culture.russian, soc.culture.french, soc.culture.europe   
   XPost: soc.culture.german   
   From: felsenmeer@serendipity.net   
      
   >   
   > The USA has turned linguistics on its head Cap'n. The water flows from the   
   > top of the tree to the roots.   
   >   
   > It doesn't matter where the roots are. The USA has given so many words and   
   > phrases to other languages that they have simply become dialects of   
   > Ameriglish.   
   >   
      
   Wrong (as usual).  Like Americans themselves, the English language is one   
   big mutt, constructed from every other language on earth.  The word   
   "President" (as in President Bush) is derived from middle French.  And   
   Washington D.C. was designed by Pierre L'Enfant, a native of Paris.  Your   
   whole Executive Branch is derived from the French, fucknut.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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