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Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 13:44:56 -0500
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>,
	naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
Subject: Re: BSDCon East
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At 20:17 09-04-2000 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes:
>> I don't find German all that helpful in this respect, but English
>> is a boon. Half or so of the English vocabulary is of Romance
>> origin,
>
>*Roman*, not Romance.

Quote from Merriam-Webster's:

>Main Entry: Ro=B7mance
>Pronunciation: rO-'man(t)s, r&-; 'rO-"
>Function: adjective
>Date: 1690
>: of, relating to, or being any of several languages developed from Latin
(as Italian, French, and Spanish)=20

Ref: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Note the capitalization. Used with a lower-case 'r' it means what you
described.

Cheers,
Adam
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