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Article #3348Re: English river names (was: EU's language policy)
From: Matthew Cunliffe
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00
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Marc Bonnaud wrote: > > colin@colina.demon.co.uk (Colin Paul Adams) wrote: > >>>>>> "Kurt" == Kurt Swanson <kurt@dna.lth.se> writes: > > > > >> - where I, as a french speaker, make the difference between a > > >> "fleuve " and a "rivi�re", the english-speaking person will > > >> only see a "river" > > > > Kurt> English has many words for moving bodies of water: stream, > > Kurt> brook, creek, rivulet, ... > > > >burn, beck, ghyll ... > > > >carry on somebody. > > Of course we too have "torrent", "ruisseau", etc... > but you failed ( by ignorance ) to get my point there > there is a significant difference between rivi�re and fleuve, since > the latter pours into the sea while the former pours into a rivi�re > or a fleuve. A difference which does not exist in english. Does too. All of the above flow into a river. A river flows into the sea. I have yet to find a river that doesn't (go on someone, correct me). Regards, Matt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matthew Cunliffe Ancient.ucs@durham.ac.uk http://www-ucs.dur.ac.uk/~gradsoc/Foundation/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 11578d,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public From: Matthew Cunliffe <Ancient.ucs@durham.ac.uk> Subject: Re: English river names (was: EU's language policy) Date: 1996/02/13 Message-ID: <312093B8.167EB0E7@durham.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 139243064 references: <4el8tf$a3v@chleuasme.francenet.fr> <823128131snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> <4f4uno$96r@kielo.uta.fi> <4f8s0u$5s3@chleuasme.francenet.fr> <kurt.823974013@bavur> <COLIN.96Feb11084150@colina.demon.co.uk> <4fnapn$2as@chleuasme.francenet.fr> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: UCS Graduate Association mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c)