From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 9 13: 5:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.btinternet.com (carbon.btinternet.com [194.73.73.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A356637B6E9 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 13:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.60.19] (helo=parish.my.domain) by carbon.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12eNws-000737-00; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:04:46 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00981; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:00:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:00:50 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Brett Taylor , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <20000409210050.C234@parish> References: <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000409140225.A2643@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i 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 +0530 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? > Rahul. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message