Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 20:11:33 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020525181133.GA1210@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <p05111702b9156e964b77@[10.0.1.11]> References: <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> <p0511170eb9127dabc846@[10.0.1.8]> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> <p05111701b9153139e9ea@[10.0.1.11]> <20020525131723.GA3092@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111702b9156e964b77@[10.0.1.11]>
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[cc trimmed] Brad Knowles said on May 25, 2002 at 18:50:07: > > and admired language. An import of a few foreign words, even if > > against the wishes of the Académie, will not destroy it > It's not the importation of foreign words into French. It's that > more and more younger people have stopped caring about French as > dictated by l'Academie Française, and the older generation will die > off. Sure - but why do you doubt that French will survive? English has never had an Académie Anglaise, and it has survived fine. So have most other languages. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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