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Re: [SLE] It's SuSE not SUSE
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:50:20 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200511191050.22830.hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:38 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Kevan,
>
> On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:30, Kevanf1 wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > I sometimes wonder how many people actually realise that English,
> > spoken all over the world, is actually derived from ancient Germanic
> > languages.
>
> English (as spoken all over the world) is the biggest mutt of a language
> ever (and I love it). It has roots or strong influences from languages
> of the British Isles, Northern Europe, French, Latin, Greek and even
> Arabic. The French influence from the Norman conquests gave English its
> horse-of-a-different-color vowel scheme.
>
> > Kevan Farmer
>
> Randall Schulz
English grammar is horribly inelegant. This is an elegant and poetic
language: http://www.snerpa.is/net/kvaedi/kvaedi.htm
Steven
> Kevan,
>
> On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:30, Kevanf1 wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > I sometimes wonder how many people actually realise that English,
> > spoken all over the world, is actually derived from ancient Germanic
> > languages.
>
> English (as spoken all over the world) is the biggest mutt of a language
> ever (and I love it). It has roots or strong influences from languages
> of the British Isles, Northern Europe, French, Latin, Greek and even
> Arabic. The French influence from the Norman conquests gave English its
> horse-of-a-different-color vowel scheme.
>
> > Kevan Farmer
>
> Randall Schulz
English grammar is horribly inelegant. This is an elegant and poetic
language: http://www.snerpa.is/net/kvaedi/kvaedi.htm
Steven
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