On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Jack Diederich <jackd...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Alexander Belopolsky > <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Jesus Cea <j...@jcea.es> wrote: >> .. >>> Good luck (and justice!) with your (both) thesis. Uhmmm, what is the >>> plural for thesis, in english?. In Spanish it is the same word, changing >>> the prefix article: "la tesis"/"las tesis" :). >> >> "theses" - isn't English fun? > > I blame Greek.
And Latin, and Germanic... and, well, pretty much every other language English speakers and their ancestors have ever encountered ;) I have a T-shirt which says "English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them down and goes through their pockets for loose grammar". It's funny because it's true :) Cheers, Nick. P.S. Other languages may be just as indiscriminate in their evolution, but English is the only one I know sufficiently well to comment on the way it evolves over time. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
