Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:26:08 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <v04220812b513d73ac81c@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042145500.88181-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407202917.A1417@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <xzpitxtq1k5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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At 11:39 PM +0530 2000/4/7, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > The > 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.... Oh, but that's what the L'Académie française is so very good at! Why would you ever deny them their raison d'être? Oh, sorry, let me post the Babelfish version -- we can't possibly have this discussion in any language other than French: Est Ah, mais c'à ce que le française de L'Académie est tellement très bon! Pourquoi lui refuseriez-vous jamais leur d'être de raison? -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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