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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier?
Date: 03 Jun 2001 12:25:48 +0200
Date: 2001-06-03T12:25:48+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873d9h3ln7.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: newscache$zd97eg$za5$1@news.crc.com

"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> writes:

> "Obsolescent" means "becoming obsolete."
> The "-cent" suffix is used on lots of words -- e.g.,
> "nascent" means "being born,"  etc.

IIRC, it's the '-sc-' which indicates that a process is still in its
beginning, the '-ent' is a variation of the present participle suffix
in Latin.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-03 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-30 13:04 Cannot use NULL as identifier? McDoobie
2001-05-30 13:22 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-30 13:27 ` Philip Anderson
2001-05-30 16:40   ` Pascal Obry
2001-05-31 11:49     ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-05-31 12:30       ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-05-31 13:33         ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-05-31 16:26           ` Mario Amado Alves
2001-06-03 10:25         ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-05-30 20:52   ` Florian Weimer
2001-05-30 13:32 ` Martin Dowie
2001-05-30 13:33 ` Petter Fryklund
2001-05-31  3:15   ` Randy Brukardt
2001-05-30 13:52 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-31  2:09   ` Robert A Duff
2001-05-31 10:49   ` McDoobie
2001-05-31 15:12     ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 14:01       ` John English
2001-06-01 14:48         ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-01 15:57           ` John English
2001-06-02  6:21             ` Simon Wright
2001-06-01 15:03         ` Gary Scott
2001-06-04 13:46           ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 15:19         ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 15:26         ` Brian Rogoff
2001-06-01 16:16         ` David Gillon
2001-06-04 12:02         ` Stephen Leake
2001-06-04 17:54           ` tmoran
2001-06-04 18:51             ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-04 21:24               ` Paper or Plastic? Ted Dennison
2001-06-06  9:28           ` Cannot use NULL as identifier? Mats Karlssohn
2001-06-06  9:37             ` John English
2001-06-06  9:48             ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-06-06 10:05               ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-06-05  8:37         ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-06-05 14:14           ` Web Publishing was " Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-06-06  8:12             ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-30 13:58 ` Claude SIMON
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-30 21:45 Beard, Frank
2001-05-31 14:53 ` John English
2001-06-02 10:53 ` Florian Weimer
2001-06-04 18:16 Beard, Frank
2001-06-04 20:36 ` Robert A Duff
2001-06-04 22:48 Beard, Frank
2001-06-05  2:34 ` Robert A Duff
2001-06-05 17:23 Beard, Frank
2001-06-06 15:53 ` Tucker Taft
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