From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 6 1:19:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from apoq.skynet.be (apoq.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B258837B81D for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by apoq.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBEE1F36C; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:19:00 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:15:57 +0200 To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: BSDCon East Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:42 AM +0200 2000/4/6, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > If the language in question has > a strong divergence between spelling and pronunciation (English is > pathological in this respect), On a side-note, English may be bad at things like this, but my experience so far is that French is worse. Of course, Welsh is by far the worst I've ever encountered -- if you ever hear a Welsh name that you think would result in less than twelve characters, you probably aren't adding enough silent vowels and consonants. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || 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