From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 25 15:04:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C2916A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7703E43D3F for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:04:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 384AD5312; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:04:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 33EDF530F; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:04:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id C510133C71; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:04:26 +0200 (CEST) To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <200404202124.50967.dgw@liwest.at> <20040421110548.20d8e75c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> <20040424131418.GA1318@gothmog.gr> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:04:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040424131418.GA1318@gothmog.gr> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:14:18 +0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: Chris Pressey cc: Dan MacMillan cc: dgw@liwest.at cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:04:36 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas writes: > A single Greek word for which there isn't an equivalent word in English > -- and I mean exact equivalent, including all the possible meanings and > nuances that this word can express in the Greek language -- should be > enough as an example, right? This isn't an "expression", it is a single > word, but there's no reason why a single word cannot be considered an > expression either :) There are plenty of those in English (sometimes shared with other Germanic languages). For instance, there is no direct equivalent for "home" in most Romance languages. Another example is "experience", in the sense used in tourist brochures or on show posters. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no