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[quote=APAULT,36616]I'm with Stocktov on this one. The language is more alive because it does not utilise foreign words. This is infuriating in technical areas where 90% of people in the relevant area around the world use international words and phrases, But not in China I don't know much about how China chooses new phrases and characters...but Net cafe/bar translates as Wang ba and uses the characters for net and one of the characters for 'ba' (I don't know which one). ....so I was told! Anyway, it should mean they avoid some of the modern 'English' that a certain nation thrusts on the rest of us... like, 'pushing the envelope', 'throw the cat in the air and see which way it falls', burglarize (when there was already a perfectly good word, burgle), sick - meaning fantastic. Nothing personal Griz![/quote]
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