Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 14:18:53 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <4.1.19981226141413.0588a190@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <36854A89.B393D402@uk.radan.com> References: <Greg Lehey's message of "Sat, 26 Dec 1998 13:16:44 %2B1030"> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <Your <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <4.1.19981225181200.05a201b0@mail.lariat.org> <xzpg1a3mzhe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19981226131644.I12346@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981226104824.05822710@mail.lariat.org>
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At 08:43 PM 12/26/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >> For example, I was recently asked in an English resatuarant if I'd like a >> piece of "GA-teau." > >I'm not sure what you're getting at here. I think the English >pronounciation of "gateau" is identical to the origianal French. The accent was on the wrong syllable. The French pronunciation is (and, as far as I know, always has been) ga-TEAU. Of course, the best example of English twisting of words is Cockney rhyming slang, where the only connection between a word and what it really means is either a vowel or a bad pun. ;-) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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