Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:44:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <200205211244.g4LCi2X0001154@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20020521131258.A5650@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On 21 Mai, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:29:55PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:18:58AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
>> > At 7:57 PM -0700 2002/05/20, David O'Brien wrote:
>> >
>> > > (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar
>> > > word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England
>> > > --- but for an entirely different reason.)
>> >
>> > Indeed, for precisely this reason, I recommend that we *avoid*
>> > the usage recommended by Knuth. It's one thing to adopt a word from
>> > another language and to use it in much the same sense, it's quite
>> > another to adopt a word with the same spelling (and perhaps
>> > pronunciation), but with quite a different meaning -- especially when
>> > you are cognizant of the contrary meaning in the other language(s).
>>
>> Pardon my unawareness, but what is this "entirely different reason" of
>> France, Germany, and the Netherlands that's been mentioned?
>
> In Dutch email is a sort of ceramic-like covering you see on old style
> pans & pots. I think it is also spelled emaille.
>
> Hmm, could this be 'enamel' in English?
My german to english dictionary says so. And it also lists "email"
("Emaille {f}; Email {f}; Schmelzglas {n} - enamel"), but I have
to admit that I wasn't aware about this meaning of "Email".
And I think most of the relevant people (techies) don't know about this
meaning either.
If someone is interested: a major computer magazine here in germany
("c't", http://www.heise.de/ct/) uses "E-Mail".
Bye,
Alexander.
--
I believe the technical term is "Oops!"
http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net
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