Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames 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> References: <7dlhrlxmm6.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10c908i$3600i$2@dont-email.me> <68ea7364$0$12948$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <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 On 25 Oct 2025 12:49:55 GMT St=E9phane CARPENTIER 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.)