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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:26:08 +0200
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>,
	Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East]
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At 11:39 PM +0530 2000/4/7, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>=20                                                                The
>=20 French are known to be touchy about imports of American words, but
>=20 concepts like "hot dog" and "internet" didn't exist in France earlier,
>=20 and to me it makes little sense to invent new words for these when
>=20 perfectly good words for these are already in use everywhere else....

	Oh, but that's what the L'Acad=E9mie fran=E7aise is so very good at!=20
Why would you ever deny them their raison d'=EAtre?


	Oh, sorry, let me post the Babelfish version -- we can't possibly=20
have this discussion in any language other than French:

	Est Ah, mais c'=E0 ce que le fran=E7aise de L'Acad=E9mie est tellement=20
tr=E8s bon! Pourquoi lui refuseriez-vous jamais leur d'=EAtre de raison?

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