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Article #3362Re: English river names (was: EU's language policy)
From: borton scott andrew
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00
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Marc Bonnaud (mbonnaud@francenet.fr) 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, ... : 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. You're forgetting about "tributary," which pours into a larger river. The difference does indeed exist in English. --scott _______________________________________________________________borton@uiuc.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 11578d,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public From: borton@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu (borton scott andrew) Subject: Re: English river names (was: EU's language policy) Date: 1996/02/12 Message-ID: <4fns3u$3l6@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> X-Deja-AN: 139043191 references: <4el8tf$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> followup-to: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union organization: University of Illinois at Urbana newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union