Re: Stress marking (was: Re: CONLANG Digest -14 Oct 2000 (maglangs plea!))

En réponse à DOUGLAS KOLLER <LAOKOU@...>:

>
> > I think indeed that red, rete and réseau are related, yes. As for
> "toile",
> it's
> > the direct translation of "web" that we use sometimes to refer to
> Internet.
>
> For me, a non-native, "réseau" has more the flavor of "net*work*".
> "Toile",
> with its sense of "(spider)web" is more descriptive, pithy, and closer
> to
> the spirit of the "Web" than "réseau".
>
> Kou
>
True enough. That's why "réseau" is considered in French more a technical
word than "toile".