Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 03:16:28 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <20020528031628.A4735@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <20020528104311.A37937@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@online.fr on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:43:11AM %2B0200 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>
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Thus spake Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>: > > 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
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