From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 24 12:44:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17357 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles221.castles.com [208.214.165.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17352 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:44:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00792; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:41:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812242041.MAA00792@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Glass cc: Mark Ovens , Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:23:28 MST." <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:41:07 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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