From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 28 3:16:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from HAL9000.wox.org (as3-4-146.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.196.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E849337B405; Tue, 28 May 2002 03:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.wox.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4SAGTU04784; Tue, 28 May 2002 03:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from das) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 03:16:28 -0700 From: David Schultz To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Giorgos Keramidas , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <20020528031628.A4735@HAL9000.wox.org> Mail-Followup-To: Rahul Siddharthan , Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Giorgos Keramidas , chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020527005647.A50028@FreeBSD.org> <3CF1CD8C.C3262181@mindspring.com> <20020527014353.B1951@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020528091410.G29491@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528001001.GA20175@hades.hell.gr> <20020528095208.A16567@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020527175613.A1214@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020528102802.K16567@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020527184817.A1485@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020528104311.A37937@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020528104311.A37937@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@online.fr on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:43:11AM +0200 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 Thus spake Rahul Siddharthan : > > Names like Gödel are not among them, but English still does far better > > than languages that insist that all foreign words must be spelled > > phoenetically. > > Was that meant to be "phönetically"? :) No, that was just me getting obsessed with the `oe'. (No, I will *not* look up the extended ASCII code for that dipthong!) > English by and large is not so bad; > it doesn't have accents "natively", so it's not terribly necessary to > use them, in my opinion; and unless you're a trained German writer, > the most obvious way out is to drop them altogether. When I'm writing something formal, I at least try to get the accents right. Sometimes I have to look things up because the only languages I know are English and Latin, neither of which have accents. But as you can tell, I don't bother to pick up a dictionary to look up words like `phonetically' when I'm writing an email. I spell them pho... well, you get the picture. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message