Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:51:07 +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: <20020521105107.D71209@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <p05111702b90fb30b64bb@[10.9.8.215]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:18:58AM %2B0200 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> <p05111702b90fb30b64bb@[10.9.8.215]>
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Brad Knowles said on May 21, 2002 at 10:18:58: > 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). Sorry, what's the contrary meaning? In France, today, at least, "email" means the same thing it does in the US or the UK. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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