From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 24 12:16:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14903 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:16:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from trickster.net (trickster.net [199.1.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14898 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:16:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from travis@trickster.net) Received: from [209.154.114.154] (chi-qbu-nvp-vty154.as.wcom.net [209.154.114.154]) by trickster.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05784; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:16:31 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199812242016.PAA05784@trickster.net> Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:28:05 -0500 x-sender: travis@wildebeest.trickster.net x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 From: Travis Ruthenburg To: "Brett Glass" cc: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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