= Сообщение: 10135 из 12491 ===================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 30 Dec 20 16:43:35 Кому : Michiel van der Vlist 30 Dec 20 16:43:35 Тема : Brexit FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5feca022 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+5fec6ba1 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: ASCII ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+5fecafe8 ============================================================================== On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:47:41 Michiel van der Vlist -> David Rance wrote:
MvdV> On Tuesday December 29 2020 22:57, you wrote to me:
MvdV>>> Not so long ago French was the language of Post and MvdV>>> telecommunication.
DR>> Not so long ago, French was the language of the upper classes. The DR>> reason that English has a vocabulary of around twice as many words as DR>> other languages is because we have two words for most things, one DR>> descended from French and the other from the Germanic languages. Our DR>> "posh" words are from French.
MvdV> French was also the language of the elite in The Netherlands. But not MvdV> to the extent that we have two words for most things. There are plenty MvdV> of leftovers though. "souterain" and "toilet" come to mind. But it MvdV> works both ways. Many people thinks that "boulevard" comes from French. MvdV> But it is actually of Dutch origin: "bolwerk". The French mangled that MvdV> into "Boulevard" and as such it came back into Dutch. "Bolwerk" also MvdV> made it into English: "bulwark".
MvdV>>> GSM originally stands for "Groupe Speciale Mobile".
DR>> Oh, I thought it stood for "Guildhall School of Music"
MvdV> Or "Grote Stille Meren". Yes, that happens with acronyms. They often MvdV> have many meanings.
DR>> Or "grams per square metre" (as in weight of paper).
MvdV> or "Groene Spercibonen Mix".
MvdV>>> And of course Latin was the language of the academic world.
DR>> And of the church.
MvdV> Of some of them. Not the langiage of the protestants. Not here in The MvdV> Netherlands anyway.
No, only the Roman Catholic Church. When Henry VIII broke away from the RC church and established his own church which became the Anglican Church, one of the things he changed was that the liturgy should be translated into the vernacular.
David
-- Formerly ICHTHUS (Reading) UK (1987-2007 R.I.P.) (2:292/854.110)
