Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:12780 news.sysadmin:1654 sci.lang:3429 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!sri-unix!garth!smryan From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin,sci.lang Subject: Re: sexist language Message-ID: <1960@garth.UUCP> Date: 23 Nov 88 02:12:55 GMT References: <1460@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <698@packard.UUCP> <1988Nov9.200939.6069@utzoo.uucp> <10837@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1988Nov13.202622.23562@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <3803@imag.imag.fr> <7731@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 22 >As for foreign words, English speakers like to boast that the >English language contains a great many of them, but in reality, >I've always been non-plussed by this claim. I don't find that the >average American newspaper uses that many foreign words and >phrases, and anyway very few of them are very common words. The foreign words are predominately borrowings from Old French from after 1066. Words like: foreign, language, contains, reality, non-plussed, (?) claim, average, uses, phrases, common, predominately, borrowings. They also include borrowings directly from Latin (the missionaries), like biscop; and from north german, like skirt, or skiff. Are these foreign words? They are certainly not `native' german. -- -- s m ryan --------------------------------------- _ Then Guthrun crossed the wasted lands and combed her hair with sooty hands. Alone she watched the oceans churning, and sang of heroes, fame most yearning.