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Fight the Google Power(French think Google could threaten the world's literary heritage)
Spiegel ^
| 25-Feb-2005
Posted on 02/25/2005 10:25:52 AM PST by sanchez810
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LOL!
To: sanchez810
Doomed, the dying bleats of a culture on the skids.
To: sanchez810
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:28:50 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: sanchez810
As long as the Europeans pay for digitizing the works in their languages, why not, the more the merrier!
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:28:56 AM PST
by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
To: sanchez810
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:29:00 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional.)
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:29:41 AM PST
by
Lee Heggy
(Sorry, I don't do Windows.)
To: Conspiracy Guy
To: nw_arizona_granny
This is all your fault nw_az.
You found too many answers to too many questions :))))
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:29:52 AM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: sanchez810
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:30:03 AM PST
by
billybudd
To: sanchez810
You gotta admit, dear world at large, it's a pretty good language (The Kings English).
"Those French, ...they have a different word for everything"
-Steve Martin (I think)-
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:30:23 AM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: sanchez810
Horrors of horrors. Frog-lingo is threatened again with extinction.
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:31:44 AM PST
by
An Old Marine
(Freedom isn't Free)
To: sanchez810
Of course, if an independent European project is unsuccessful, there's always the fall back plan. The office of the European Library in The Hague is in talks with, yes, Google. The goal: to get European libraries in on the Google digitalization project. Even before I got to this sentence that was my first thought - why not approach Google..........DUH.......
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:32:28 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Wanna join my tag team?)
To: sanchez810
The world's literary heritage is being threatened by the easy availability of literature. Go figure.
Do you ever get the impression that the French are control freaks?
You'd think that the French would have figured out by now that the reason their language is losing popularity is that they insist on linguistic purity. A useful language, must be a versital language that changes with the times, and borrowers words from other languages. Otherwise, it dies.
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:34:07 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional.)
To: Brilliant
Yeah They are, after all they Invented modern socialism.
To: norraad
"Oh my God, he spoke French, he's dead."
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:35:59 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: sanchez810
Warning continental Europeans that the move will lead to a skewed vision of world culture for generations to comeLOL... lets tell the french not to worry, they're really good at skewing themselves, generation after generation.
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To: sanchez810
It's bad enough that American films dominate European cinemas. Because Europeans would rather see American films than European films.
To: sanchez810
Yup this sounds about right.
When the government looses control over the language and the knowledge given to the "average" citizen, they loose control over those people.
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:43:48 AM PST
by
tfecw
(Vote Democrat, It's easier then working)
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