Powerpoint Bloat

[Jamon Camisso]

Peter wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
>>>> The genericness of XML allows us to apply DTDs to non-web documents as
>>>> well.
>>>>    ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>        '--- That is _SO_ a word. Lousy spell checker. ;-)
>>>
>>> ubiquitousness ? ;-)
>>
>> No, ubiquitous implies 'everywhere'. How about:
>>
>>     generality [-or-] general nature
> 
> universality ? Why is it that every time one tries to say something 
> clever in English, one has to resort to Latin words ? ;-)
> 
> Peter

Because around 24% of English words derive from Latin. Another 24% from Old 
French, many of which are from Old Latin and Greek. Only about 23% of English 
words are derived from English, Germanic, and Dutch languages combined. Having 3 
words to say nearly the same thing means that differentiation occurs where once 
there was none -- shades of meaning. English words tend to be simple and 
commonly used, French, less so, and Latin even less -- thus register changes to 
high register where Latin words are involved, sounding rather more clever ;)

Jamon

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