From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Petascale computing
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:08:12 +0200
Date: 2012-04-26T03:08:12+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.wdclfyeeule2fv@douda-yannick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878vhjl7yz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org
Le Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:14:44 +0200, Ludovic Brenta
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
> Yannick Duchêne writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> Le Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:30:07 +0200, Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> a
>> écrit:
>>> In Merriam-Webster Online, none of the definitions say that the verb
>>> has negative connotations
>>
>> The very close French verb « inciter » carries none at least. I
>> believe the same about its English peer.
>
> Don't believe that. Most English words that originate from French
> retained the etymological meaning from the middle ages (ultimately from
> Latin), which is usually much stronger than today's meaning. IOW, the
> meaning of the French words changed to become milder.
You are right, at least for many‑many cases.
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
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2012-04-23 8:50 Petascale computing gautier_niouzes
2012-04-23 20:06 ` Shark8
2012-04-29 10:23 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-04-24 19:33 ` Jerry
2012-04-25 12:06 ` Stephen Leake
2012-04-25 16:30 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-04-25 21:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-04-25 23:14 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-04-26 1:08 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2012-04-26 11:01 ` Stephen Leake
2012-04-25 22:03 ` Jerry
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