[KS] Re: Mori's cockamie ideas

Elisabeth Lamoureux elamour at socrates.berkeley.edu
Sat Sep 9 23:04:47 EDT 2000


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On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Henny Savenije wrote:
> I think the debate in the EEC lately 
> is something similar. The French and the Germans want of course their 
> language being the official one, and the British of course too. The debate 
> will continue, ... I think forever, and not only in Europe but anywhere else.

-- A long while ago the European Economic Community (EEC) became the
European Community (EC), it is now the European Union (the EU).
All languages are official, the so-called "working" lanuguages are
English, French, German and Spanish, I believe.

--Elisabeth Lamoureux
Department of Geography
UC Berkeley







> 
> BTW by the time Perry opened Japan, they found a large number of Japanese 
> who could speak Dutch rather well and Dutch signs everywhere. The Japanese 
> still thought Holland was a world power and Dutch the major language in the 
> world. Ah well, the dream had to collapse once.
> 
> A completely different subject though, the better I learn Korean the more I 
> find there are quite a few Dutch, German and French words in Korean. For 
> the Dutch I think the explanation lies in the fact that the same words 
> exist in Japanese as well, the German words; that medicine was mainly 
> introduced in Japan by German doctors in Japan, but I am curious about the 
> French ones though, one that jumps in mind is Manto (French Manteau)
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> 
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