From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 9 1:33:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E69337B652 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 01:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 2780 invoked by uid 211); 9 Apr 2000 08:32:26 -0000 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:02:26 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Taylor Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <20000409140225.A2643@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:11:50PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > French are known to be touchy about imports of American words, but > > concepts like "hot dog" and "internet" didn't exist in France earlier, > > and to me it makes little sense to invent new words for these when > > perfectly good words for these are already in use everywhere else.... > > If you think they were touchy about "hot dog" you can probably imagine the > uproar when physicists started talking about "black holes." I'll let you > figure out what the French word for that is. :-) Interesting. What about top and bottom quarks, bra and ket vectors, etc? My impression was that the physicists themselves don't care, but maybe L'Academie does. How about standard Unix stuff like touch, finger, sleep, and so on? Is there a French version of Unix? Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message