From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 21 8:51:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560D037B409 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 08:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4LFoug4006973; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:50:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with UUCP id g4LFouHB006972; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:50:56 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4LFoCMl017828; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:50:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200205211550.g4LFoCMl017828@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Miguel Mendez Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linguistics (Was: ...) References: <20020521170214.A28301@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020521170214.A28301@energyhq.homeip.net> ; from Miguel Mendez "Tue, 21 May 2002 17:02:14 +0200." Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:50:12 +0100 From: Mark Murray 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 > I have to admit that our german folks have the advantage here, since > they can just join words and make a sentence out of it :-) Also english > allows you to turn a noun into a verb (to Hoover, anyone?), which is > something you can't do in other languages. English is great that way. You can verb any noun. :-) M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message