Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 23:43:11 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <20020405214311.GA798@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <xzpofgxsunx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <20020405183857.GA58446@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> <20020405231950.B63981@lpt.ens.fr> <xzpofgxsunx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav said on Apr 5, 2002 at 23:27:30: > Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes: > > Just for fun, in modern French there is a verb "utiliser" which means > > the same, but no word which sounds similar to "use". > > Wrong. > > http://www.francophonie.hachette-livre.fr/cgi-bin/sgmlex2?U.SCIP.UL0034300 Sorry, my bad. (Where's my dictionary when I need it?) Come to think of it I've heard people say "usage" though I don't think the verb "user" is used very commonly. In English it's more common to say "use" when it's not an unusual use, as in the end of the previous sentence; "utilize" would sound awkward there but would still be correct. I think if one translated that sentence into French, one would normally say "utilisé" for "used" -- correct me if I'm wrong. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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