On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > as for Internet = Mirshetet... oh ouch. I've been toying with the idea > of calling it "Ravreshet" for a few years now but never offered it to > the Academy. I still prefer its sound, plus it's echoing the inter > prefix relations of the origin = Net/Reshet, INTERnet/RAVreshet.
Prefixes, and to a lesser extent sufixes, are not as common in Hebrew. Hebrew is a language where words are usually created by the way of Shoresh+Binyan. As for other words: anybody uses "Sakh-Rakhok"? ;-) Anyway, it is not such a bad word. If it catches on, it will be a resonable word. Think of "Mitsnefet". Heck, "internet" is a new word to the English language. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
