Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:00:50 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <20000409210050.C234@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000409140225.A2643@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 02:02:26PM %2B0530 References: <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004081510320.81871-100000@peloton.runet.edu> <20000409140225.A2643@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 02:02:26PM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > > French are known to be touchy about imports of American words, but
> > > concepts like "hot dog" and "internet" didn't exist in France earlier,
> > > and to me it makes little sense to invent new words for these when
> > > perfectly good words for these are already in use everywhere else....
> >
> > If you think they were touchy about "hot dog" you can probably imagine the
> > uproar when physicists started talking about "black holes." I'll let you
> > figure out what the French word for that is. :-)
>
> Interesting.
> What about top and bottom quarks, bra and ket vectors, etc?
> My impression was that the physicists themselves don't care, but
> maybe L'Academie does.
>
> How about standard Unix stuff like touch, finger, sleep, and so on?
Ah, you mean how does a UNIX guru have sex?
A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
> Is there a French version of Unix?
>
L'Unix? <ducks and runs>
> Rahul.
>
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