From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 9 13:14:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tantalum.btinternet.com (tantalum.btinternet.com [194.73.73.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3810137B560 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 13:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.60.19] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tantalum.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12eNxv-0002V4-00; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:05:52 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01146; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:14:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:14:09 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000409211409.D234@parish> References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cq15m$1mbp$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:17:48PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:17:48PM +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. > > The words "romance" and "romantic" (as well as the french word for > "novel") all stem from the fact that popular litterature (well, > popular if you disregard the 80 or so percent of the population who > couldn't read, much less afford a book) was written in the vulgar > tongue called Roman rather than in Latin. > > > > Diareses have the same function in French as in English [...] > > Tell that Alex "nobody needs Unicode" Belits, who seems to be under > > the impression that ASCII is sufficient to write proper English. > > Hmph. > > How's he gonna spell dæmon? > Probably "demon". The use of ae-dipthong (sp?) in English is declining due largely, I believe, to American influence; encyclopedia, anesthetic etc. Curiously ispell(1) (built with ``make british'') shows the former to be correct, but the latter to be mispelled. > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message