From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 26 19:17:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6816937B403; Sun, 26 May 2002 19:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17CA3K-0002Nq-00; Mon, 27 May 2002 09:16:06 +0700 Received: from regency.nsu.ru ([193.124.210.26]) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17CA3K-0002Ne-00; Mon, 27 May 2002 09:16:06 +0700 Received: (from danfe@localhost) by regency.nsu.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4R2Gq453009; Mon, 27 May 2002 09:16:52 +0700 (NOVST) (envelope-from danfe) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 09:16:51 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Terry Lambert Cc: Martin Karlsson , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Brad Knowles , Rahul Siddharthan , Annelise Anderson , Jamie Bowden , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual language (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020527091651.A39265@regency.nsu.ru> References: <20020522050350.GA266@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523124604.Z45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523061551.GA237@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523155541.H230@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523063222.GA470@lpt.ens.fr> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> <20020525175337.F84264@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020526094106.GA345@foo31-146.visit.se> <3CF15CAD.C05C6BEE@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CF15CAD.C05C6BEE@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:07:41PM -0700 X-Envelope-To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, ragnar@sysabend.org, andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU, rsidd@online.fr, brad.knowles@skynet.be, grog@FreeBSD.ORG, martin.karlsson@visit.se, tlambert2@mindspring.com Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:07:41PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Second counter-example: many of the former Russian republics have > official languages, the best overall description of which is really > "anything but Russian". Kazhakstan is probably the best known to Actually, "Khazakstan" is more correct. > people in the U.S. (and most likely that's as much because of the > fact that it ends in "stan" like "Afghanistan", as for the brush-fire > conflict that flares up periodically between it and Russia). Well, I'd say that "flares up periodically" seems a bit harder-said than it actually should, though Khazakstan is far not the only "stan"-suffixed republics of former USSR. It's not only the ending that makes it "the best known to people in the U.S." ;-P ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message