What is an ospx file and why do people send them?

On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:56:22 -0600, R. C. White wrote:

Hi, Gene.

As a college freshman, I read a beginner's book for students studying
German. The title was "Der Fuchs und der Veingarten". I might have it
wrong because it was over 60 years ago, but I had no trouble reading the
book, partly because of the illustrations. But mostly it was because I had
heard the fable of the fox and the "probably sour" grapes - and because the
German words in the book were so close to their English counterparts.

Still, it came as a surprise to learn a little later that English is a
Teutonic language, related much more closely to German than to Greek or
Latin, despite our heavy reliance on those ancient tongues. Since I'm no
linguist - although I do enjoy mild etymology - I'll leave further
observation and comments to the many experts here.

RC
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"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:12:26 -0500, B00ze/Empire wrote:

On 2014-12-20 17:28, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:33:00 -0500, B00ze/Empire wrote:

On 2014-12-06 17:17, Bert wrote:

In Good Guy
wrote:

html
head
meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type"
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body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" text="#000000"

What?


I think the new color is fine, it was really bad when it was pure
Fushia, lol ;-)

Or even fuchsia?

Oops, did I mispell fuchsia? Hehe, sorry :-)
Thanks for pointing it out, I never knew it was written this way...
Now the questions is, will I remember it ;-)

The flower is apparently name after a German whose surname is Fuchs
(fox). The English pronunciation of fuchsia is a bit weird, IMO.

Anyway, now I dare you to forget how to spell it!

:-)

The relationship to the Germanic family is betrayed by the history and
by today's grammar, vestigial though it is. The Latin and Greek
vocabulary tended to appear after the Norman invasion and modern science
and philosophy came to be. I think the churches may have helped too.

If you can find Beowulf in Old English and some German, Norse,
Icelandic, and other literature from those days, you might be startled
by how much they look alike. At least, I can't detect any differences,
but I'm not fluent (gross understatement) in any of them.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:56:22 -0600, "R. C. White"
wrote:

Still, it came as a surprise to learn a little later that English is a
Teutonic language,


Some experts even call it a low German dialect.


related much more closely to German than to Greek or
Latin, despite our heavy reliance on those ancient tongues.


Starting with the invasion in 1066, England was heavily colonized by
the Normans, and many French words came into English. Although French
comes from the Latin, there's very little in English that has come
directly from Latin. And even less from Greek.

Ken Blake wrote:

Starting with the invasion in 1066, England was heavily colonized by
the Normans, and many French words came into English. Although French
comes from the Latin, there's very little in English that has come
directly from Latin. And even less from Greek.


Try saying Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in Greek!

I was on a work trip to Athens, Greece about a dozen years ago and a
few weeks before the Easter holiday. Having an hour of so before
meeting local Athen's based colleagues for dinner I turned on the TV in
the hotel and Mary Poppins was one of the choices. Pretty much the
entire movie dialogue including the songs were dubbed in Greek...the
above noted word was not.

--
....winston
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:30:54 -0700, "...winston?"
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

Starting with the invasion in 1066, England was heavily colonized by
the Normans, and many French words came into English. Although French
comes from the Latin, there's very little in English that has come
directly from Latin. And even less from Greek.


Try saying Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in Greek!


Excellent spelling! (At least I think so. g)