From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,896d86ef3723978c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: maintenance of overriding subprograms Date: 1997/09/18 Message-ID: <3421C9D7.582B@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 273862538 References: <340C2EA5.B9F@gsfc.nasa.gov> <340DCE1D.6C5F@bix.com> <5v3dlu$pgu$1@miso.it.uq.edu.au> <5v87gd$r00$1@miso.it.uq.edu.au> <5vau2k$psf$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org