Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:14:09 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000409211409.D234@parish> In-Reply-To: <xzpya6nm94j.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:17:48PM %2B0200 References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <8cq15m$1mbp$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6nm94j.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:17:48PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes:
> > I don't find German all that helpful in this respect, but English
> > is a boon. Half or so of the English vocabulary is of Romance
> > origin,
>
> *Roman*, not Romance.
>
> The words "romance" and "romantic" (as well as the french word for
> "novel") all stem from the fact that popular litterature (well,
> popular if you disregard the 80 or so percent of the population who
> couldn't read, much less afford a book) was written in the vulgar
> tongue called Roman rather than in Latin.
>
> > > Diareses have the same function in French as in English [...]
> > Tell that Alex "nobody needs Unicode" Belits, who seems to be under
> > the impression that ASCII is sufficient to write proper English.
>
> Hmph.
>
> How's he gonna spell dæmon?
>
Probably "demon". The use of ae-dipthong (sp?) in English is declining
due largely, I believe, to American influence; encyclopedia, anesthetic
etc. Curiously ispell(1) (built with ``make british'') shows the former
to be correct, but the latter to be mispelled.
> DES
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