From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 25 6:19:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-1.free.fr (postfix2-1.free.fr [213.228.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B03237B401 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 06:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-2-62-147-133-181.dial.proxad.net [62.147.133.181]) by postfix2-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC8227D for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 15:19:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 3136 invoked by uid 1001); 25 May 2002 13:17:24 -0000 Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 15:17:23 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brad Knowles Cc: Martin Karlsson , Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Terry Lambert , Annelise Anderson , Jamie Bowden , Alexey Dokuchaev , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020525131723.GA3092@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <20020522050350.GA266@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523124604.Z45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523061551.GA237@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523155541.H230@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523063222.GA470@lpt.ens.fr> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles said on May 25, 2002 at 14:24:00: > many younger French speakers tend to speak English pretty easily but > also seem to be less interested in keeping to the strict rules > dictated by l'Academie Française (or the equivalent in their > country), That's probably a sign of health. You yourself implied that some time back (you called the control by the Académie a sign of a dead language). > and seem to be less interested in keeping the French > language itself alive. I don't see any evidence of that, in France anyway. True, many younger people speak good English, but not in preference to French -- only out of necessity when dealing with foreigners. And they still prefer to speak French if the foreigners know French too. France is a big country and, even outside France, French is a popular and admired language. An import of a few foreign words, even if against the wishes of the Académie, will not destroy it, any more than the import of all those French words over the centuries have destroyed English. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message