Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:16:11 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <XFMail.981226101611.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <19981226124204.08495@welearn.com.au>
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Madainn mhath(*) On 26-Dec-98 Sue Blake wrote: > On Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 06:11:13PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >> As I was reminded this summer as I wandered around the >> UK on honeymoon, British and American are different >> languages. And Australian, Irish, and Scottish >> "English" are different still. ;-) > > Yeah, but Australian, Irish, Scottish and English English don't present > so many problems in translation. The differences are mainly in > pronunciation. I can't think of a common word that is a bad swear word > in another of these English variants, for example, but I can think of > several between American and Australian/English/etc. Well, depends on which Irish/Scottish ye mean. As soon as people start using the `real' Scottisch 'n Irish, then most can forget it. Gaelic and the Scandanavian tongues are in my opinin some of the greatest souding languages around. And I have to say that Dutch ain't bad either, we can both speak the hard German as well as the soft french tongue... Not many people can pronounce 's-Gravehage as it should be (the g is the same as in the scottish loch). Go maith hi u mu slainte! (**) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; (*) - Good morning (**) - Go forth in happiness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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