Anthere wrote:
--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
LittleDan wrote:
I (and equally my parents) was unaware that 'ilk' carried any negative connotations. I thought ilk
just
meant 'other people like you and possibly group
with
you for whatever discussed similarity.
The meaning is probably in flux. Remember that some dictionaries don't carry this meaning at all, and none of the ones that I saw marked it as negative. (Although apparently Anthère's translation dictionary did.)
Harraps New Shorter is usually the best reference for english-french translation dictionary
We should probably save these discussion for future work at Wiktionary.
Definitly. The word should be included. I would do it myself right now if Wiktionary was not in Unicode :-(
Message received :-) . I'll put it on my "to do" list.
Ec