From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 9 9:13:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C7537B5B2 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 09:13:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id RAA15396 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:56:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA55686 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:39:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: BSDCon East Date: 9 Apr 2000 15:39:02 +0200 Message-ID: <8cq15m$1mbp$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Even English and German are useful to understanding French... I don't find German all that helpful in this respect, but English is a boon. Half or so of the English vocabulary is of Romance origin, and that works very well the other way, too. Apart from helping with French, it's very useful for Italian too, and probably the other Romance languages as well, although I seem to have more trouble figuring out written Spanish and even more with Portuguese. > Diareses have the same function in French as in English - to quote the > Webster: "a mark {umlaut} placed over a vowel to to [sic] indicate > that the vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable (as in naļve, > Brontė)" Tell that Alex "nobody needs Unicode" Belits, who seems to be under the impression that ASCII is sufficient to write proper English. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message