Date: 09 Apr 2000 20:17:48 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <xzpya6nm94j.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de's message of "9 Apr 2000 15:39:02 %2B0200" References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <8cq15m$1mbp$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes: > I don't find German all that helpful in this respect, but English > is a boon. Half or so of the English vocabulary is of Romance > origin, *Roman*, not Romance. The words "romance" and "romantic" (as well as the french word for "novel") all stem from the fact that popular litterature (well, popular if you disregard the 80 or so percent of the population who couldn't read, much less afford a book) was written in the vulgar tongue called Roman rather than in Latin. > > Diareses have the same function in French as in English [...] > Tell that Alex "nobody needs Unicode" Belits, who seems to be under > the impression that ASCII is sufficient to write proper English. Hmph. How's he gonna spell dæmon? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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