From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/09
Date: 1999-12-09T11:26:18+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hfhsmk28.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 384F77EB.9450984B@bton.ac.uk
John English <je@bton.ac.uk> writes:
| Another interesting one I've seen several times is "wala", as in
| "you do this, and wala, it works"... presumably someone ignorant
| of French who heard someone else say "voila" started this one...
Not only the English language is affected. In Norwegian we don't split
words as much as the English language does.
Example: Radio frequency = radiofrekvens.
But now more and more words are split (by people, the language is not
changing) into two words. This is probably due to much exposure to the
English language on the net and through other media. Sometimes you see
such hopeless splits like (in an English equivalent) "forefathers"
into "fore fathers" :-)
--
Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/]
"Det eneste trygge stedet i verden er inne i en fortelling."
-- Athol Fugard
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-01 0:00 Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Michael P. Card
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Jerry Maple
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` P.S> Norby
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Jeffrey L Straszheim
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` John English
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
1999-12-01 0:00 ` ld
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-02 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Ronald Caudill
1999-12-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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