Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:16:54 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000415151538.74116B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <8cq15m$1mbp$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On 9 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> 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.
>
Well, I don't know about French, but knowing English and German is
definately helpful when looking at websites in .nl 8-)
> > 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
>
>
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