[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

Thu Feb 10 12:35:56 CET 2011

2011/2/10 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
+> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 07:28 -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit :
+>> On Thursday 10 February 2011, my mailbox was graced by a missive
+>>  from Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> who wrote:
+>>
+>> > Britain people came enough in France long time ago to steal words to us
+>>
+>> No, we took French words to England when Guillaume le Batard took over the
+>> country (and to Scotland in the days of the Auld Alliance).
+>
+> On this side of the pond, we rather call him "Guillaume le
+> conquérant" :)
+
+Now, could you all please forget about all this, it's almost 1000 years ago. :)
+Actually it were not the true residents of the british isle who were
+conquered by William, it were the Anglo-Saxons, themselves being
+former conquerors of the british isle. When William won the battle of
+Hastings in 1066 the real islanders had retreated to Wales, Scotland
+and Ireland long before.
+
+And now, what did the English do in those 1000 years of relationship
+between France and England? They adopted the worst (french parts of
+the language) and rejected the best: the french cuisine (well, any
+kind of cuisine). :)
+
+-- 
+wobo
+