From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 11 10: 6:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA2D37BA05 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:06:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.3/frmug-2.7/nospam) with UUCP id TAA15779 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:06:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id EB7488796; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:57:39 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <20000411075739.A6907@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000407202917.A1417@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000409154425.A85284@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.11i In-Reply-To: ; from blk@skynet.be on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:52:48AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF AMD-K6/200 & 2x PPro/200 SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Brad Knowles: > If they're going to be famously anal about protecting the > language from all possible encroachment from foreign languages, it > seems that they should apply these methods to their own website. They're inconsistent and many people don't take them seriously. They've tried to force people to use "translated" words and failed many times. Translating "CD-ROM" into "cédérom" for instance is ridiculous but it has never stopped them to try :) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #78: Sun Feb 27 15:32:39 CET 2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message