linguistic oddities
Sep. 26th, 2003 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesWhy is it, I wonder, that the French word for "Christian" is chrétien, but the word for "Christianity" is Christianisme?
I wouldn't care about this if I wasn't writing this paper about exoticism, one of the facets of which is a criticism of 18th-century France. I keep having to remind myself that the inconsistent spelling is correct. Speaking of spelling, for some reason MS Word isn't having fits because I'm not typing English. Even when I am, it doesn't have fits about names, which it normally can't spell. I'm not complaining, mind you.
Bloody telemarketers! mutter mutter grumble snarl...
All right, back to getting useful writing done.
I wouldn't care about this if I wasn't writing this paper about exoticism, one of the facets of which is a criticism of 18th-century France. I keep having to remind myself that the inconsistent spelling is correct. Speaking of spelling, for some reason MS Word isn't having fits because I'm not typing English. Even when I am, it doesn't have fits about names, which it normally can't spell. I'm not complaining, mind you.
Bloody telemarketers! mutter mutter grumble snarl...
All right, back to getting useful writing done.
