I'm pretending to work so I didn't have time to read all 19 pages.
But assuming the above are facts, sounds like Nintendo's right on. More power to them. Pokemon can't last much longer anyway; what's next? Chartreuse version?
English *hasn't* survived. Not as it started, anyway. Anyone who's ever looked at a document written in Old English knows that it is VERY different from the language they've come to know and love now. Spanish could be argued as "dying" if it were taking on words for which there were already spanish ones, but for the most part I think the argument here is all the IT words that NOBODY really had any words for until they needed them and invented them for their purpose. How long has the english word "upload" been around? Probably since the first person got tired of saying "load it up" and started using the word around his/her friends. If it's beginning to be used in Spain and other Castillian-speaking countries and conjugated in a spanish fashion then it is no longer exclusively english but a word naturally incorporated into the Castillian language which incidentally has an english background, and if we bothered to check out the background of "up" and "load" we'd find that they were not originally english words at all, anyway.
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I'm pretending to work so I didn't have time to read all 19 pages. But assuming the above are facts, sounds like Nintendo's right on. More power to them. Pokemon can't last much longer anyway; what's next? Chartreuse version?
English *hasn't* survived. Not as it started, anyway. Anyone who's ever looked at a document written in Old English knows that it is VERY different from the language they've come to know and love now. Spanish could be argued as "dying" if it were taking on words for which there were already spanish ones, but for the most part I think the argument here is all the IT words that NOBODY really had any words for until they needed them and invented them for their purpose. How long has the english word "upload" been around? Probably since the first person got tired of saying "load it up" and started using the word around his/her friends. If it's beginning to be used in Spain and other Castillian-speaking countries and conjugated in a spanish fashion then it is no longer exclusively english but a word naturally incorporated into the Castillian language which incidentally has an english background, and if we bothered to check out the background of "up" and "load" we'd find that they were not originally english words at all, anyway.