From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 7 8:28:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from apoq.skynet.be (apoq.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F0837B5A3 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 08:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by apoq.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DDC1F265; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:28:12 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:50:57 +0200 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: BSDCon East Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:30 PM +0200 2000/4/7, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > It's only a problem if they didn't pay attention in class. Bar a few > exceptions, there are good ethymological reasons for most spellings, > and given a rudimentary knowledge of latin (which is complusory in > French schools) and a sufficient base of other words to compare with, > it shouldn't take more than a few seconds' thought to determine the > correct spelling of a word with which you're not yet familiar. So I have to learn Latin before I can learn French? I may be wrong, but I don't think they teach it that way in schools in France, and I know they don't teach it that way in schools here in Belgium -- although they do have a tri-lingual requirement for graduation, and most people end up taking their native language (Dutch or French) plus English and a third language (frequently the other major official language of the country, but not always). -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message