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Article #3020Re: use and meaning of "etang" in French
From: Alex Loew
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 00:00
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On 24 Jan 1998 19:44:34 GMT, dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) wrote: Hi, >... "extent of water smaller and less deep than a lake" > >very much like the definition of "pond" in English. in generally I would say that ist the right definition! etang = pond >Anyway, my question is how to explain "Etang de Berre", "Etang de Vaccares", >et tout les autres etangs grandes de Languedoc?? These are actually much >larger than typical lakes in France, so they would seem to contradict the >definitions. The problem is that there exist proper names in French. They named these lakes (?) "Etang de Berre", "Etang de Vaccares" ... I think the problem is that it's difficult to applicate scientific definitions on cultural names. Bye Alex ************************************* Alexander Loew alexander.loew@stud.uni-muenchen.de "Ein Spezialist ist jemand, der von immer weniger immer mehr wei�, bis er alles von nichts wei�. Ein Generalist ist jemand, der von immer mehr immer weniger wei�, bis er nichts von allem wei�."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10870e,2586fa76ffc639bf X-Google-Attributes: gid10870e,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,2586fa76ffc639bf X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public From: alexander.loew@stud.uni-muenchen.de (Alex Loew) Subject: Re: use and meaning of "etang" in French Date: 1998/01/25 Message-ID: <34cb1dd9.813349@news.lrz-muenchen.de> X-Deja-AN: 319115364 References: <6adgb2$fh3$1@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> Distribution: world Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Newsgroups: sci.lang,bit.listserv.geograph