OT - Re: SC - spelling please
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 5 10:21:51 PST 2001
Totally off topic for the list, but on topic for this off-topic
thread on the spelling and usage of foreign words in any language:
i always hyphenate e-mail, because "email" (sort of pronounced
"eh-my" in English) means "enamel" in French and that's the first
thing i think of when i see "email".
And don't forget other "French" words such as "le chewing gum"
pronounced "shwang gum", "le living" for "living room", "le
shampooing" (shom-pwang) for "shampoo" (which is originally a word
from India meaning "massage"; why it means hair washing soap in
English i'm not entirely sure), etc.
It's a rare language that is "pure" and trying to purify a language
seems a bit silly to me. If we "purified" English we'd lose over 75
per cent of our words.
Anahita
clogging up the mail but not your arteries
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