From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 25 05:55:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA25086 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 05:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mramirez.sy.yale.edu (mramirez.sy.yale.edu [130.132.57.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA25081 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 05:55:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrami@localhost) by mramirez.sy.yale.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA00785; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:40:54 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:40:52 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Ramirez Reply-To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT In-Reply-To: <199603232256.XAA26069@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Marc Ramirez wrote: > > > Off the top of my head: > > > > [noun list] > > Ya'know, we're proud of our umlauts. ;-) Arrgh! Two major mistakes in the same message!! It was a bad weekend. :) > The worst English has in this field is that its irregular verbs are > being used in about 50 % of all verbs (my rough estimation). That seems at odds with the oft-touted statistic that eighty-someodd percent of English vocabulary is of Latin origin. Or do you mean 50% of usage? That could easily be true... Marc. -- "I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means it's going to be up all night." -- Steven Wright