Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:28:05 -0500 From: Travis Ruthenburg <travis@trickster.net> To: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <199812242016.PAA05784@trickster.net>
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On 12/24/98 1:23 PM, Brett Glass (brett@lariat.org) uttered: >At 12:01 PM 12/24/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > >>That is unbelievable. To impose such restrictions on their own citizens >>seems authoritarian enough, but to extend it to foreign nationals (I >>assume neither of you have dual nationality), and on the grounds that >>another country might object, is really OTT. Anyway, is your surname not >>of French origin (Le Hey)?. > >The French preoccupation with the purity of their language has inspired >no small amount of parody. Chief among these were the Pepe Le Pew >cartoons, in which people encountering the principal character would >shout: > >"C'est le pole-chat!" > >"Sacre' bleu! Le grand sconque de pew!" > >and other memorable bits of "Franglish." I always thought the proper term was "Franglais"... >--Brett Travis Ruthenburg bjork bjork bjork travis@trickster.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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