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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-16 14:42:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!194.168.4.91.MISMATCH!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <3EECA772.4B662024@adaworks.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:41:47 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.75.181 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1055799776 80.195.75.181 (Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:42:56 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:42:56 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39284 Date: 2003-06-16T22:41:47+01:00 List-Id: On 16/6/03 22:30, in article bcld18$k8tkb$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de, "Vinzent Hoefler" wrote: > |Pronunciation: 'I-"dem, 'E-, 'i- > |Function: pronoun > |Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, same -- more at IDENTITY > |Date: 14th century > |: something previously mentioned : SAME > > and then Identity says: > > |Etymology: Middle French identit�, from Late Latin identitat-, > |identitas, probably from Latin identidem repeatedly, contraction of > |idem et idem, literally, same and same > |Date: 1570 > > So I'd say, yes, idem seems to be a Latin word. :-) Only when one is speaking Latin. When I speak, it is Middle English. 8-) -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")