Re: Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> The word "resent" is an example of the effects of people trying to
> write Enlish when they probably shouldn't. "Resent" is to be
> understood as a passive form of the word "resend". This word doesn't
> exist in my fairly recent edition of an Oxford dictionary.  But it
> has been added to a popular online dictionary (dict.leo.org).
> Nevertheless, I bet few people know that "resent" means something
> very different when English isn't their native language.  (But it
> reads like English...)

A lot of the people "trying to write English who probably shouldn't"
are native English writers :-)

In the computer context I would use 'resent' and think nothing of it,
native English speakers would be very very likely to understand, it's
a regular (if Latin) construction. But outside that context I would
probably write 'sent again'.

Speech is a different matter; 'rezzent' with stress on second syllable
for 'be annoyed by' vs. 'ree-sent' with stress on first syllable for
'sent again'. But we native speakers get that sort of thing wrong too;
for example, far too many (BBC reporters even) think that 'diffuse'
and 'defuse' (or 'defuze' I suppose) are pronounced the same.