Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 13:44:56 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000409134456.0089c4d0@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpya6nm94j.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de's message of "9 Apr 2000 15:39:02 %2B0200"> <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <8cq15m$1mbp$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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At 20:17 09-04-2000 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes: >> I don't find German all that helpful in this respect, but English >> is a boon. Half or so of the English vocabulary is of Romance >> origin, > >*Roman*, not Romance. Quote from Merriam-Webster's: >Main Entry: Ro=B7mance >Pronunciation: rO-'man(t)s, r&-; 'rO-" >Function: adjective >Date: 1690 >: of, relating to, or being any of several languages developed from Latin (as Italian, French, and Spanish)=20 Ref: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary Note the capitalization. Used with a lower-case 'r' it means what you described. Cheers, Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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