Christopher Schultz wrote:
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André,
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Morality : in web applications, always specify the content-type
(and character set, if applicable) of what you are returning.
To André: the word you are looking for is "Moral", not "Morality". A
"moral" is the essential message of a story, while "morality" is being
able to tell the difference between right and wrong. ;)
Thanks for the vocabulary note. I my defense, I would say that this family of English
terms is a bit confusing, for a native French-speaker.
The English terms "moral*" are originally undoubtedly imported from the French language
(William the Conqueror was after all a Frenchman). But they kind of messed it up during
the import procdure, since in French :
"moral" can be a noun or an adjective. As a noun ("le moral"), it means what in English
is "the morale" (like "..of the troops"). As a masculine adjective, it means "that which
is moral/ethical". And that adjective also has a corresponding feminine form "morale".
So you would say :
- ce conte (masculine) est très moral (this tale is very moral/ethical)
but
- cette fable (feminine) est très morale (this fable is very moral/ethical)
On the other hand, "la morale" (feminine noun) is what in English would be translated as
"the morality" (or "the ethics").
And to top it all, the English "the moral of this story" would be best translated in
French as "la moralité de cette histoire".
A bit confusing, he ?
There are many such things between different - but related - languages, some of them often
leading to amusing situations. For example, the word in spanish for "suffering from a
cold" is "constipado", which is very close to the french word for being incapable to go to
the toilet ("constipé"). And the English adjective "embarassed" (also imported from the
French "embarassé(e)", and with the same meaning), is very close to the Spanish
"embarassada", which means "pregnant".
This all just in case someone was wondering about my interest in character set issues on
the WWW..
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