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Old 05-Dec-2007, 03:34
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Default Re: What happened to those missing languages in this planet?

A great writer can often enrich a language; huge numbers of today's idioms in English come from the works of Shakespeare. However, when countries try to pass laws on language, they brarely succeed. If say, a government passed a law saying that English terms for technology were not to be used, would people follow the law?
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