Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:41:07 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <199812242041.MAA00792@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:23:28 MST." <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1>
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> 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." Chief? I don't know about that. But the language is "Franglais", and the thus-named column in Punch Magazine was my first introduction to the concept. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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