Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:31:37 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <v0422080db5175d392d54@[195.238.21.91]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004091121110.2390-100000@peloton.runet.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004091121110.2390-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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At 11:25 AM -0400 2000/4/9, Brett Taylor wrote: > 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. Damn. It seems that Babelfish has been corrected with regards to this usage. I was hoping to have some more entertaining (than usual) translations of web pages and papers relating to physics. Sigh.... -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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