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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,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: 1997/09/25 Message-ID: <342AA19F.71F4@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 275554519 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> <3421C9D7.582B@gsg.eds.com> <34295DB2.4186@ac3i.dseg.ti.com> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 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