English vocabulary is expanding at the rate of 8500 words a year. Researchers from Harvard and Google, after scanning five million books, counted 1,022,000 words. Even though vocabulary evolves through exposure to other languages some countries are prohibiting the use of some English words, in order to keep the purity of their language, as they say. Lately Germany’s transport minister enforced a strict ban on the use of 150 words and phrases such as, laptop, ticket, meeting within his ministry.
France, a nation known worldwide for its linguistic pride, has outlawed advertising in English and established a 40% quota of French songs on the radio, as reported by the Christian Science Monitor.
In most of the European countries I have visited, English is the secondary
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Quebec it is repressed , although it is a province in a bilingual Canada and is surrounded by a sea of English ( 350 million). Ironic and illegal.
In Italy, because of national pride, during the times of fascism, the usage of "foreign" words especially in the formal press were actively discouraged. These words carried the stigma of "unpatriotic." Thus "hotel" would be discouraged in favor of "albergo." Curious, though, that while the etymology of "hotel" is the Latin "hospitalem," that of "albergo" is the Middle English "hauberk." Patriotism, you said?
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