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To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>
Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>,
	Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>,
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Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East]
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 09 Apr 2000 14:40:41 +0200
In-Reply-To: Brett Taylor's message of "Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:11:50 -0400 (EDT)"
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Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> writes:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > 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....
> If you think they were touchy about "hot dog" you can probably imagine the
> uproar when physicists started talking about "black holes."  I'll let you
> figure out what the French word for that is.  :-)

"trou noir". What's the problem?

DES
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