Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:29:55 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@freebsd.org>, chat@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>, "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020521152955.A26759@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <p05111702b90fb30b64bb@[10.9.8.215]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:18:58AM %2B0200 References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org> <p05111722b90de01cc974@[10.9.8.215]> <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> <p05111702b90fb30b64bb@[10.9.8.215]>
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:18:58AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 7:57 PM -0700 2002/05/20, David O'Brien wrote: > > > (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar > > word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England > > --- but for an entirely different reason.) > > Indeed, for precisely this reason, I recommend that we *avoid* > the usage recommended by Knuth. It's one thing to adopt a word from > another language and to use it in much the same sense, it's quite > another to adopt a word with the same spelling (and perhaps > pronunciation), but with quite a different meaning -- especially when > you are cognizant of the contrary meaning in the other language(s). Pardon my unawareness, but what is this "entirely different reason" of France, Germany, and the Netherlands that's been mentioned? Thank you. ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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