From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 9 14:38: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nscache2.x-treme.gr (mail1.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1927137B63E for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:37:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat30.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.222]) by nscache2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id AAA07699; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:36:19 +0300 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA11862; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:18:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:18:22 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas Message-Id: <200004092118.AAA11862@hades.hell.gr> To: brett@peloton.runet.edu, des@flood.ping.uio.no Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de, rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav > > Brett Taylor writes: > > > > As I noted in some other message, I only know French as it pertains to > > biking so I don't know if that's the correct word, but apparently French > > physicists were annoyed when John Wheeler coined the word "black hole" > > because it translated to anus. > > Bollocks. To me, it sounds like just another one of those the-french- > are-so-weird stories the anglosaxon are so fond of telling. I've only heard the story from English speaking people, so it seems that you have more right than wrong there, -DES. - Giorgos Keramidas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message