Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!hsu From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women Subject: Re: Re: the word "love" in English... Message-ID: <20@cvl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 10:48:27 EST Article-I.D.: cvl.20 Posted: Mon Feb 11 10:48:27 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 03:18:50 EST References: <116@rtech.ARPA> <286@psivax.UUCP> <547@wlcrjs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park Lines: 14 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2574 net.women:4444 > > And for that matter, "nothing," as in tennis -- "Six-love." > This usage, of course, has a completely different derivation, and is in fact a mis-pronounciation by the British of the French word l'oeuf (egg, colloquially used to mean zero), and the rest is history. =Dave Hsu= "...very dangerous. You go first." (301) 454-4526 ARPA: hsu@cvl hsu@umd2 USnail: Computer Vision Laboratory CSNET: hsu@cvl Center for Automation Research BITNET: hsu@umd2 University of Maryland UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!cvl!hsu College Park, MD 20742