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2008-09-11 Europe

Italians urged to drop 'il weekend' and other creeping English words

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 From now on it's Freedom Pies. Delivered in 30 minutes or less is the American Way.

Posted by ed 2008-09-11 01:30|| 2008-09-11 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Foolish, futile foibles. Can't stop words and expressions from oozing in from areas of dominate cultures. Just be grateful that the words come from American influence and not Arabic Islamic radical influence.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-09-11 04:35|| 2008-09-11 04:35|| Front Page Top

#3 For four months, the society asked visitors to its website, 70% of whom were Italians, for inappropriate examples of foreign words being used in everyday Italian,

Polls 101. You never, never, never, never even look at polls based on people coming to you. Who visits
the site of the Dan,te Alighieri society? Normal italians or nationalistic losers with too muvch time in their hands? (Let's rember that they use the world calcio instead of football like France, Span, Portugal. A legacy of the Mussoloini era) And then who bothers to answer the question polled?

The only>/b> valid polls are those who are based on the pollster selecting the people and going to them. Also because the people who refuse to answer tend to have different opinions tahnthe ones who do the more compulsive the
poll the better the results: phone, where people can hang on you has greater bias than face to face and nothing beats the ~~suspect~~ citizen being brought handcuffed to the local poll agency, having a ligt on his eyes, slapped a few times and asked "Are you going to vote for Obama or for Mac Cain".

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-11 05:47|| 2008-09-11 05:47|| Front Page Top

#4 *gigggle* Thus speaks a true statistician.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-09-11 08:27|| 2008-09-11 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 TW, even if the last part was a joke the post had many bits of sound statistician wisdom.

In a less extreme form in Turkey, every so many years they have a Census Day during which everyone
must stay at home and the only people allowed in the streets or roads beyond ambulances, police and fireman are...statisticians.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-11 10:02|| 2008-09-11 10:02|| Front Page Top

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