Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:18:58 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>, "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <p05111702b90fb30b64bb@[10.9.8.215]> In-Reply-To: <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org> <p05111722b90de01cc974@[10.9.8.215]> <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com>
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At 7:57 PM -0700 2002/05/20, David O'Brien wrote:
> (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar
> word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England
> --- but for an entirely different reason.)
Indeed, for precisely this reason, I recommend that we *avoid*
the usage recommended by Knuth. It's one thing to adopt a word from
another language and to use it in much the same sense, it's quite
another to adopt a word with the same spelling (and perhaps
pronunciation), but with quite a different meaning -- especially when
you are cognizant of the contrary meaning in the other language(s).
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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