2-28-06

The whole "Freedom Fries" thing was even more idiotic than I previously believed. The vast majority of complex words in English were borrowed from French or Latin -- which essentially is what French was a few thousand years ago -- so "The man has a sword and likes water" is about the most complicated thing you can say using only Old English roots. Anything beyond that and you're in French territory; erasing French fries from our language would have accomplished nothing. Even the word language itself was stolen from French.