Re: Now that is a fine example of administrative busybodies
Many, many years ago my Dad amused himself by learning Hebrew. The modernisers of the language had the choice of either directly importing modern words from other languages for stuff that Hebrew didn't cover or to make up new Hebrew words to cover things.
They ended up doing it roughly 50/50.
Likewise modern Celtic languages.
English is a bit odd in that it's probably taken more words from French than French ever has borrowed from English - that's one reason why English vocabulary is so flexible..
Biting the hand that feeds IT
