From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 5 13:43:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-2.free.fr (postfix2-2.free.fr [213.228.0.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD60837B416 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:43:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-4-62-147-140-218.dial.proxad.net [62.147.140.218]) by postfix2-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E9C5F97C for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 23:43:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 825 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Apr 2002 21:43:11 -0000 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 23:43:11 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Greg Pavelcak , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <20020405214311.GA798@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Greg Pavelcak , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020405183857.GA58446@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> <20020405231950.B63981@lpt.ens.fr> 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 4.5-STABLE 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 Dag-Erling Smorgrav said on Apr 5, 2002 at 23:27:30: > Rahul Siddharthan writes: > > Just for fun, in modern French there is a verb "utiliser" which means > > the same, but no word which sounds similar to "use". > > Wrong. > > http://www.francophonie.hachette-livre.fr/cgi-bin/sgmlex2?U.SCIP.UL0034300 Sorry, my bad. (Where's my dictionary when I need it?) Come to think of it I've heard people say "usage" though I don't think the verb "user" is used very commonly. In English it's more common to say "use" when it's not an unusual use, as in the end of the previous sentence; "utilize" would sound awkward there but would still be correct. I think if one translated that sentence into French, one would normally say "utilisé" for "used" -- correct me if I'm wrong. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message