m_a_r_c wrote:

> 48f7c440@news.povray.org...
>> I've noticed that English seems to have two of many words meaning simi
lar 
>> things but with slightly different connotations. One tends to come fro
m 
>> the Spanish/Latin kind of words, with the other coming from the German
.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_of_England  ;-)

Well, yes, I know *why* it happened. I just thought it was interesting 
that there were slightly different connotations, like the difference 
between "finished" and "terminated", for example.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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