From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 27 22: 7:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEEA515563 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA18567; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:37:51 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA14798; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:37:51 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:37:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: dmp@aracnet.com Cc: Michael Henry , fredrik.carlen@telia.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Name o' daemon? Message-ID: <19990828143751.H13904@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990827013014.AE8C31559A@hub.freebsd.org> <37C74C4F.659542E4@aracnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37C74C4F.659542E4@aracnet.com>; from dmp@aracnet.com on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:41:19PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 27 August 1999 at 19:41:19 -0700, dmp@aracnet.com wrote: > Michael Henry wrote: >> >> Here's a snippet from one of Jordan Hubbard's recent posts to the >> -advocacy mailing list: >> >> >> P.S. Please don't call him "Chucky" anymore - it really offends Kirk >> and we don't need to do that. Just call him "the BSD daemon" or just >> "the daemon." Kirk says that he's not supposed to have a name anyway, >> and if he did, it would probably be "beastie" (not that I like that name >> much myself, so I just call him "the daemon", pronounced "day-mon"). > > I thought "daemon" was Latin? No, it's Greek, admittedly adapted into Latin spelling (see "The Complete FreeBSD" for the Greek spelling, which would be better rendered as "daimon". There's no evidence that it's pronounced differently from "demon". In ancient Greek it would presumably have been 'die-mon', and I think in modern Greek it's "dee-mon". Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message