On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Simon Slavin wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2014, at 12:08pm, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> > Hundreds of new words in French dictionaries for 2014
>
> Apologies. Technical distinction due to French being defined by
> L'Académie française, as opposed to a language like English
On 5 Feb 2014, at 12:08pm, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Simon Slavin wrote:
>
>> But over all, English is an acquisitive (unlike German) evolving (unlike
>> French) language.
>
> Hundreds of new words in French dictionaries for 2014
Apologies. Technical distin
I've followed this thread with some interest and I think you are all
wrong... All discussion should be in English, that's UK English as spoken
by us Brits not the bastardisation of our glorious language that is
American English.
I put it to the list that Colour should be spelt with a U, same for
C
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Simon Slavin wrote:
> But over all, English is an acquisitive (unlike German) evolving (unlike
> French) language.
>
Hundreds of new words in French dictionaries for 2014 (links to other
recent years at the bottom):
http://www.linternaute.com/actualite/societe-fra
On 01/02/14 14:09, Simon Slavin wrote:
>
> But over all, English is an acquisitive (unlike German) evolving (unlike
> French) language. So how about we give it two hundred, two hundred and fifty
> years, and see what happens ?
>
Nah, we should just hold all technical discussions in Lojban, o
On 1 Feb 2014, at 10:59am, RSmith wrote:
> The plural of Index is always "Indices", never "Indexes".
I started with 'indices' when posting to this list but I found that some of the
many foreign readers of this list apparently missed my meaning. It's easy for
someone struggling with English t
Heh, was waiting for someone to point that out :)
For the record, so does Oxford English dictionary - and on reconsideration, I should have been more clear. Indexes are very much
"allowed" these days a plural of Index when not used in a technical sense, but (and this is a big but), this is due t
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:59 AM, RSmith wrote:
> I know this is a Database forum (as opposed to a language forum) but
> kindly allow me a quick interjection here since I have met this question
> many times, as posed by Scott in a forum question:
>
> On 2014/02/01 06:01, Scott Robison wrote:
>
>> E
I know this is a Database forum (as opposed to a language forum) but kindly allow me a quick interjection here since I have met this
question many times, as posed by Scott in a forum question:
On 2014/02/01 06:01, Scott Robison wrote:
Exerpt: ...// *and* information that led to creation of ideal
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