From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 13 5: 1: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3F637B67F for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 05:01:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rage@cyberwitch.org) Received: from localhost (rage@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3DBxqk17042; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:59:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:59:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Rhiannon X-Sender: rage@bytor.rush.net To: Brett Taylor Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] In-Reply-To: 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 Bravo ! Finally, someone who actually understands the concept of a 'Universa Language' Exactly ...there are words which just should not be translated into every single dialect known to man/woman and alien. Now i'm not downgrading the study of languages, but in the scientific circles, and especially the technological world, we have enough to do with deciphering code, etc. I think it's about time someone/some group sets down the principles for a Universal Communication Language that all techno and lay people can understand. Ok can somebody please help me get down from this soapbox now ? :P Lorraine }*{ how do you know she's a witch ? * * * rage@cyberwitch.org rage@rush.net rage@free.bsdunix.net On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Brett Taylor wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message