From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 01:48:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21517 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:48:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21493 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:48:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-relay-2.0b1) with SMTP id KAA28865; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:47:30 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <19990210234522.C791@localhost> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 2.4b2 X-URL: http://www.skynet.be x-sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:02:41 +0100 To: Mark Ovens , Eric Hodel , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Pronunciation of "daemon" Message-Id: <19990211100241.007585@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 10, 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: >On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 12:45:57PM -0800, Eric Hodel wrote: >> Just how exactly do you pronounce "daemon?" Is it day-mon or >> dee-mon? (Or something else entirely?) > > Dee-mon The word originally comes from the Greek word that is transliterated as "daemon" but pronounced die-moan. They were spirts (they might be good and kindly, or perhaps nasty and bad) which typically watched over a small area (maybe a spring, or a particular field near the woods), and one would appease them by making offerings in a traditional spot. This is thought by many to be one of the origins of early pan-European "pantheism" (or the belief in many deities), although daemons were merely spirts and not true deities. And that's probably more than you wanted to know. Myself, I always keep a rubber chicken handy to sacrifice on the Altar of the Console. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News/mail/FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ The Sky is no longer the limit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message