From: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Removed forward slash?
Date: 21 Jul 1999 11:45:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oqaesq6m7d.fsf@titan.progiciels-bpi.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann's?= message of "18 Jul 1999 00:46:57 +0200"
Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> écrit:
> what is it that people use nowadays?
> Hardware/software or logiciel/matériel or mentaille/quincaille?
Either logiciel/matériel or, out of laziness, the English words.
> And what's French for slash and backslash?
As I said earlier: `barre oblique' or `barre oblique renversée', when not the
English words. I would like `cotice' and `contre-cotice' to become popular.
> I think Italian and German are a head-to-head race concerning the
> lengths of the words used for stuff. [...]
Yes. English is often concise, even if much less musical :-).
There is a long way before Babelfish does it all, and Gnus just speaks
my messages. This would really be fun. I wonder how it will render
color changes. Different human voices, maybe? :-)
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-21 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-17 12:55 Harry Putnam
1999-07-17 13:11 ` François Pinard
1999-07-17 14:22 ` Harry Putnam
1999-07-17 15:22 ` François Pinard
1999-07-17 16:52 ` Harry Putnam
1999-07-17 17:37 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-17 18:34 ` François Pinard
1999-07-17 22:46 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-07-21 15:45 ` François Pinard [this message]
1999-07-19 5:24 ` Matt Simmons
1999-07-19 10:54 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-07-19 14:54 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-17 16:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-17 22:32 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-07-19 11:32 ` Toby Speight
1999-08-27 19:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-17 16:44 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-17 17:00 ` Harry Putnam
1999-07-17 22:29 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-07-18 10:07 ` Norman Walsh
1999-07-19 22:32 ` Rui Zhu
1999-07-18 15:38 ` Paul Stevenson
1999-07-19 0:11 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-07-19 10:53 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-07-19 14:04 ` Paul Stevenson
1999-07-19 14:36 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-07-19 6:54 ` Thomas Lofgren
1999-07-19 7:37 ` Jaap-Henk Hoepman
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