From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: maintenance of overriding subprograms
Date: 1997/09/18
Date: 1997-09-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3421C9D7.582B@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5vau2k$psf$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>
> This thread is based on initialise/initialize.
> I have real trouble with colour/color (I mean, English is French based,
> not Spanish based, right? (:-) (:-)).
No, English is based on a whole string of invasions, and the Norman
Conquest
was only the most recent. In addition to the languages that fed into
English
via invasions, there was the usual influx of words from the classical
languages. I'd say that English is more of a Germanic language than a
Romance language, but there are many othe strands in it as well.
> This would also be of use for people whose languages _do_ have an Academy
Well, in the examples I'm familiar with, the Academy decrees but the
people
continue talking and writing as they please. Neither the French nor the
Hebrew language academies have been very successful in changing the
vernacular.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Senior Software SE
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-02 0:00 maintenance of overriding subprograms Stephen Leake
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-08 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] ` <340DCE1D.6C5F@bix.com>
1997-09-04 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-09-09 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
1997-09-24 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Anonymous
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1997-09-10 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-29 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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