From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 7:55: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98FD37B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 07:54:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.151]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id KAA29601; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 10:54:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id KAA21092; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 10:54:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 10:54:56 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Peter Lai Cc: "'Y u r i '" , "'questions@freebsd.org '" Subject: RE: Tyr'd with all this pronunciation thread In-Reply-To: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019EEF@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, now this is WAY off topic, but you've both raised interesting points. But almost all languages do what you're talking about. I know spanish especially has words like hamborguesa, carro (cognate for american car -automobile) Also almost all languages fail to follow their own rules all the time. Of course American English has taken both of these to an extreme. But the rate at which foreign word adoption is happening for all languages is probably increasing due to increased world travel and communication. Ala the slashdot article on Spanish being ruined by technical english words. Tim On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Peter Lai wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message