From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 2: 9:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu (resnet.resnet.uconn.edu [137.99.156.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31BF37B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 02:09:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 05:06:04 -0500 Message-ID: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019EEF@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> From: Peter Lai To: 'Y u r i ' , "'questions@freebsd.org '" Subject: RE: Tyr'd with all this pronunciation thread Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 05:06:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'd have to agree English is classified as a Germanic languague because that is what the core is written in :) Then people added more and more words from other languages that were ported over to English. :) Syntatical structure is quite unique, based on the Latin system. -----Original Message----- From: Y u r i To: questions@freebsd.org Sent: 12/2/2000 4:05 AM Subject: Tyr'd with all this pronunciation thread Hello , Unfortunately, the English language predominates the Internet world despite it not being a very good language. Really just a bastardization of other languages, English doesn't even follow it's own standards. The only thing going for the English language is its large installed base -- sort of like Microsoft Windows. -- Best regards, Y u r i mailto:ure@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message