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To: Kaslin

Pasta, too Italian of a word?

And here I thought that ‘pasta’ was an English word.

Oh, wait, it IS an English word. English is smart enough to steal, with regularity, words from other languages and make them its own. That’s why English is a rich, vibrant language. And the opposite approach that some French speakers take is the reason that French may become a static, and hence dying, language.


4 posted on 06/09/2013 5:59:15 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

Pasta actually comes from the Latin word Pasta


9 posted on 06/09/2013 6:18:26 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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