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Nooo not latin, 2 years of that was enough to make me love her majesties English!
Back on topic. Perhaps it is just me, but I don't believe that X companies owning Y brands reduces 'choice'. So long as there is more than 1 of a 'product' there is a semblance of choice - EVEN if the options have been determined ahead of time. What people tend to forget, is that unless the lack of Y is terminal to your health - the 2nd option of NO always exists. We (me and whomever else here is one) as parents must always teach our children that just because cartoon Z says buy Y or advert A says buy Y that you don't HAVE to. The bigger challenge is to have our kids stand up to the 'normalised' kids at school and be prepared to be different.
Ag, its Saturday afternoon - maybe i"m talking a load of hot air
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The biggest challange I see is to stand behind your kids, no matter what. Because for a long time when the kids are young, the people that life with them are all that matters. They might not realize this, but as long as the family supports them they will be fine. Maybe a little boy likes to wear dresses. That might result in an adult (male) to wear a dress. Just to show the little boy that its fine to wear whatever he wants. Thats what gives a kid confidence.
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Most people don't have the attention span for anything more than 5 minutes :-)
I agree with you fully and thanks for the German word. Zeitgeist is German with no English word too. I've always thought English was the language of the devil and it frustrates me that I can't explain what I have in my head in this crippled language. German keeps cropping up and maybe it is a better language. Maybe we should all re learn Latin... :-)
What? oh a train... cho cho
Your You are welcome. But I dont think that there are so many new german words. There are words in english that dont have a representation in german either. E.g. security and safety is both "Sicherheit" in german, which is stupid, because it two different things. I think learning another language allways helps you to learn new words and to better express what you feel, because each language has unique words. Some can be translated but lose meaning, some can not be translated but you still know their meaning. Chinese and Japan probably have a lot of words we "long noses" dont know.