From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 8 12:13:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DBF237B84D for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:13:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA81886; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:11:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:11:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] In-Reply-To: <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, 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. :-) Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message