Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:53:11 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <4.1.19981226104824.05822710@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpaf0bvuu6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Greg Lehey's message of "Sat, 26 Dec 1998 13:16:44 %2B1030"> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <Your <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <4.1.19981225181200.05a201b0@mail.lariat.org> <xzpg1a3mzhe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19981226131644.I12346@freebie.lemis.com>
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At 03:30 PM 12/26/98 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >BTW "connoisseur" is a funny example of a French word that has been in >the English language for so long that it's no longer spelled the same >way in French; most of the "oi" diphtongs have become "ai" (françois >-> français, connoître -> connaître) but the English have kept the >archaic spelling in most cases (connoisseur, reconnoitre) but not all >(reconnaissance) The funny thing is that when the English adopt a word from another language, they cannot seem to use it as-is. They seem to feel COMPELLED to shift at least the accented syllables and often the vowels. For example, I was recently asked in an English resatuarant if I'd like a piece of "GA-teau." And almost daily, we hear Microsoft referred to as a "JUG-ger-naut" (the original Hindi is "ja-ga-NATH," a name for the god Vishnu). And so on.... --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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