Why English needs protection: an example

[Wilson Gray]

The complimentary close [I learned this term in the fourth grade,
ca.1946. Is there an update?] of an e-mail in Estonian:

"Soome-ugri [Finno-Ugric] _televisioon_ [on the] _Internetis_
"_Head_ vaatamist-kuulamist [of Audio-Visual].

"Parimatega [Best wishes],
"Andrey Tentyukov"
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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