Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:26:08 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <v04220812b513d73ac81c@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042145500.88181-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407202917.A1417@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <xzpitxtq1k5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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At 11:39 PM +0530 2000/4/7, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >=20 The >=20 French are known to be touchy about imports of American words, but >=20 concepts like "hot dog" and "internet" didn't exist in France earlier, >=20 and to me it makes little sense to invent new words for these when >=20 perfectly good words for these are already in use everywhere else.... Oh, but that's what the L'Acad=E9mie fran=E7aise is so very good at!=20 Why would you ever deny them their raison d'=EAtre? Oh, sorry, let me post the Babelfish version -- we can't possibly=20 have this discussion in any language other than French: Est Ah, mais c'=E0 ce que le fran=E7aise de L'Acad=E9mie est tellement=20 tr=E8s bon! Pourquoi lui refuseriez-vous jamais leur d'=EAtre de raison? -- =20 These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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