I am only here collecting Welsh words, for a project and have no Welsh myself, but found this in WELSH-L, which prompts me to add my 2 cents worth. (That is an interesting example of the argument below. I wrote 1/2p then 1/2d then ha'porth and finally used the American version of the saying, because more recipients would understand it). Geraint H. Jones wrote: > An ninnau'n defnyddio cymaint ar yr hen dechnoleg yma, oes rhywun wedi > bathu termau Cymraeg am e-mail, Usenet, World-Wide Web ayyb? > Beth am yr awgrymiadau canlynol? > World-Wide Web Rhwydwaith Rhyngwladol (RhRh?) > Usenet Defnyddrwyd > Email Trydanbo+st > Ymddiheuriadau os oes termau'n bodoli'n barod am yr uchod. Oes rhywun ag > awgrymiadau gwell, ac am dermau eraill? We live in a "Global Village", and Internet is perhaps the epitome of that concept where friends can be literally anywhere on Earth. One effect of this is that the village speaks a common language, which for good or ill is becoming American. Neologisms travel round the world literally at the speed of light (1/7 of a second for a complete circuit). Nothing can stop them becoming part of all languages in the world, and any attempt is doomed to failure. Maintaining the Language and Culture of Wales, England or even Yorkshire, is a good idea (I do English Folk Dancing and can still talk broad Yorkshire). But for communication one must accept the reality of the Global village, with all the neologisms. Translating them into any other language, is not only doomed to failure, it shunts the users into a siding of non communication. Your own de-facto practice is to use neologisms as they occur, in the original American. Looking at my list of words, collected from WELSH-L over the last three months, I find 4 occurrences of usenet, 5 of WWW and 9 of e-mail. My other collections of words in many languages, *all* contain many occurrences of e-mail, usenet, and WWW. Dave Fawthrop, . -- God loved the World so much that he gave his only Son, so that -- -- anyone who believes in (trusts, clings to, relies on) him shall -- -- not perish, but have eternal life. **STARTING NOW! IT'S GREAT** --