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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!atlas.onthe.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!homer.alpha.net!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!swsbe6.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lille1.fr!usenet From: lefranc@lsh03.univ-lille1.fr (Marc Lefranc) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 29 Mar 1996 19:41:32 +0100 Organization: Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille Lines: 34 Sender: lefranc@lsh03.univ-lille1.fr Message-ID: <p6rzq8z91yb.fsf@lsh03.univ-lille1.fr> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com> <4j7dg2$t3t@moacs11.moacs.indiv.nl.net> <3158D764.4A7C@vfr.interceptor.com> <4jd29q$19u@park.uvsc.edu> <4jffho$f49@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <4jh613$2a4@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lsh03.univ-lille1.fr In-reply-to: Terry Lambert's message of 29 Mar 1996 17:18:27 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13880 comp.os.linux.development.system:20318 comp.os.linux.x:28057 comp.os.linux.hardware:34894 comp.os.linux.setup:48079 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:375 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2884 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2659 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16317 In article <4jh613$2a4@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer) wrote: ] ] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: ] : ] : 1) "Berne", not "Bern" ] ] The original (Swiss) spelling doesn't have that extra "e" ] at the end..... Well it is not so simple... Indeed it would be "Bern" for a german-speaking swiss, but "Berne" for a french-speaking swiss... Too bad I don't remember which language they speak in Bern[e]. We're conversing in English. But you're right. The US WWW references have an 'e'. I plead "Cultural Imperialism". Just pretend you are a french-speaking swiss... ________________________________________________________________________ | Marc Lefranc, Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne (URA CNRS 249) | | Bat P5, UFR de Physique | | Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille | | F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq CEDEX (FRANCE) | | e-mail: lefranc@lsh.univ-lille1.fr ; FAX : (+33) 20 33 70 20 | |______________________________________________________________________|