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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws)
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At 03:30 PM 12/26/98 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
 
>BTW "connoisseur" is a funny example of a French word that has been in
>the English language for so long that it's no longer spelled the same
>way in French; most of the "oi" diphtongs have become "ai" (françois
>-> français, connoître -> connaître) but the English have kept the
>archaic spelling in most cases (connoisseur, reconnoitre) but not all
>(reconnaissance)

The funny thing is that when the English adopt a word from another
language, they cannot seem to use it as-is. They seem to feel COMPELLED
to shift at least the accented syllables and often the vowels. For 
example, I was recently asked in an English resatuarant if I'd like a 
piece of "GA-teau." And almost daily, we hear Microsoft referred to as
a "JUG-ger-naut" (the original Hindi is "ja-ga-NATH," a name for
the god Vishnu).

And so on....

--Brett


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