Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 17:43:45 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <199812242041.MAA00792@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:23:28 MST." <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1>
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At 12:41 PM 12/24/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >Chief? I don't know about that. But the language is "Franglais", and >the thus-named column in Punch Magazine was my first introduction to >the concept. I think that frustrated Frenchmen (and French teachers) were calling it "Franglish" long before Punch came out with the column. My first French teacher (who was in her 60's or 70's when I had her in elementary school in the 1960's) says that they called it that when she was little. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehome | help
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