[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well, I've met my share of Germans who tried to stem back the flood of English words, but for the most part they were crackpots. Not that I'm suggesting a causal link, but most reasonable people don't have anything against it.

I don't want us to end up like France, that's all. No offense to French people, but your government has notions of cultural purity that quite frankly scare me. In my book, everyone who thinks he has to make up a new word for "walkman" just plain doesn't get what's going on in the world. (Besides, "balladeur" is a pretty stupid replacement.)

Also, as already said, sometimes you just can't say it in your native language. I can't count how often I've strained to explain something in German that's perfectly clear in my head - in English.

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