Peter Varley writes:

>Quite why a foreign language is thought to be necessary when there's
>so much still going on in the traditional CM language escapes me too.

Thank you for saying what I was thinking.

I have heard several reasons offered:

1) The "old" language is inappropriate for modern times

2) There's nothing innovative, only imitative, to be said in the old
language

3) It's necessary that the language change, otherwise it becomes stale
and backward looking.  Change, if not progress, is essential to art.

len.