Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:05:49 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <199603252105.WAA10566@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960325082856.1609N-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> from "Marc Ramirez" at Mar 25, 96 08:40:52 am
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As Marc Ramirez wrote: > > 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... Yup, this was about the actual usage. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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