Groups | Search | Server Info | Login | Register


Groups > comp.os.linux.misc > #76748

Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work?

Path csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work?
Date Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:34:08 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Lines 16
Message-ID <20251027093408.00001ae5@gmail.com> (permalink)
References <sm0y0pmq2qb.fsf@lakka.kapsi.fi> <af-dncJqL6ncZXj1nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@giganews.com> <7dlhrlxmm6.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <DIednY0Sz4AKzHr1nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10c908i$3600i$2@dont-email.me> <t5qcnTjojILG_3X1nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com> <68ea7364$0$12948$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <HLwGQ.254734$7Ika.65933@fx17.iad> <mkvnt4FdgtdU1@mid.individual.net> <68eb8c02$0$24822$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10d0f0e$1u8bd$1@dont-email.me> <68f40083$0$28050$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <20251020092029.000020b3@gmail.com> <68fcc773$0$417$426a34cc@news.free.fr>
MIME-Version 1.0
Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding quoted-printable
Injection-Date Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:34:12 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info dont-email.me; posting-host="cdf5e0e5462486ed1f61e9acc6f9977b"; logging-data="993633"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+sYgyKnwpJE+VA1YGLROttj6lgg9bpXoI="
Cancel-Lock sha1:1fW/eubxpbuq3X0SZLbFCTacn4M=
X-Newsreader Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32)
Xref csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76748

Show key headers only | View raw


On 25 Oct 2025 12:49:55 GMT
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

> But what is "new" to me, I mean not from yesterday, but from a few
> years, is that it works in the other way around, too. Some French
> words are used in English because they sound cool. And they are far
> more than what I knew/guessed a few years ago.

Yeah - English speakers adopting French terms isn't as common as it used
to be,* but a lot of the expressions that have been imported over the
centuries are still in semi-common use.

* (It'd be interesting to trace this behavior in a global context over
  time - these days, for example, most of our novel loanwords seem to
  come from Japanese, post-anime boom.)

Back to comp.os.linux.misc | Previous | NextNext in thread | Find similar


Thread

Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-10-27 09:34 -0700
  Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-27 21:26 +0000

csiph-web