Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Date: 26 Oct 2025 19:11:54 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: 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> <10djhg8$3kg9d$5@dont-email.me> <68fe27c0$0$10314$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net +hiLAWDS5999xd6J2ECqNgjTt/ksG/prbs+ZvQ/0eev9dx948E Cancel-Lock: sha1:XfXRCXNlY4H4Ij0Duv2QllPz04s= sha256:KMzCzJvPQ8zLwiym1H3585e0lvocC1kOBycFRU2ltlQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76724 On 26 Oct 2025 13:53:04 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > You shouldn't. If you hear people fighting against English words coming > into French, it means, there are French guys who are using those words. > And those words are technical words, so they are used by technical guys > because they don't have better words. But at the same time, they are > used by not technical guys who want to make look like they now their > stuff. So, > they are using those words just because they sound cool. That's not that > new. In shit, like advertisement, people were using English words > decades ago to make their speech look like it's serious when it's only > bullshit. Do they keep the English pronunciation? A friend and his father were both native German speakers but did speak English also. When they were talking in German it was strange when they used a English word pronounced in English. My friend had a German accent; his older brother had none. Both emigrated to the US when they were young.