From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: maintenance of overriding subprograms
Date: 1997/09/25
Date: 1997-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <342AA19F.71F4@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34295DB2.4186@ac3i.dseg.ti.com
John G. Volan wrote:
>
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> The most recent invasion _into_ Great Britain perhaps, but surely not
> the most recent _invasion_ to have influenced the English language.
Certainly English has had infusions of words since the Norman Conquest
from
Amerindian, Arabic, Chineese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi,
Latin,
Spanish, Yidish and a few others, but none have had the same influence.
With
the universality of television and the coming universality of the
Internet,
I expect to see a lot more loan words coming into English, along with
the
continuing anglicization of other languages, e.g., "le drugstore" in
France,
"lcampel (to compile) in Hebrew. But I don't expect to see anything
massive
enough to call an invasion.
--
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
[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 ` Tom Moran
1997-09-09 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
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
1997-09-24 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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
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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