Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:22:54 -0700 From: dmp@aracnet.com To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Michael Henry <mhenry@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au>, fredrik.carlen@telia.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Name o' daemon? Message-ID: <37C7722E.B13768AA@aracnet.com> References: <19990827013014.AE8C31559A@hub.freebsd.org> <37C74C4F.659542E4@aracnet.com> <19990828143751.H13904@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > 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". Smooth book plug. :-) I'm a little rusty on my Greek, so I'll have to trust you on that one I guess. But if it's adapted to Latin spelling, then it would have to be pronounced die-mon, wouldn't it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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