uberpackager rename (was Re: The Big ACL Opening)

Dimi Paun dimi at lattica.com
Mon Oct 20 20:12:17 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 12:40 -0700, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> "Uber" is not the only word that got a wrong transfer into English.
> Another example, which is a lot worse, is "Gift"*. I don't see any
> reason of promoting the usage of such wrong transfers. It hurts
> languages, both English and that language the word is transferred
> from.

This is getting nuts! HTF is "gift" hurting English and the Icelandic
at the same time?!?

I agree with Dave that all this PC crap is getting to be very annoying.

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Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.




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