[Ti] Everest Laptops
Erik Gaderlund
gaderson at mac.com
Sat Sep 6 02:03:58 PDT 2003
At 14:35 -0600 09/05/03, Sam Hotchkiss wrote:
>On 9/5/03 2:27 PM, "Loren Schooley" <loren at flash.net> wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>> French has more words than English? Since when?
>>>
>>> The post didn't say more words. It referred to more specific words for
>>> specific concepts.
>>>
>>> That is important in having fewer ambiguities and misunderstandings and
>>> downright deception in the use of the language.
>>> --
>>
>> Yeah but we have better cuss words to cover those ambiguous occasions.
>
>Damn straight
"It's like wiping your ass with silk."
Obviously some people haven't seen the new Matrix movie.
erik g
Who can swear in at least 5 languages.
p.s. English according to the "Story of English"
PBS/BBC docuemntary has around half a million non
technical terms and a half-a-million tech terms.
So, you can be more exact in English for concrete
things and more exact in Français for abstract
concepts.
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