From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 25 13:24:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA06220 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 13:24:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA06162 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 13:24:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA10573 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:24:23 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA12299 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:24:25 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id WAA10566 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:05:49 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603252105.WAA10566@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:05:49 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: from "Marc Ramirez" at Mar 25, 96 08:40:52 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)