From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 25 17:31:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A2B1065678 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:31:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.54.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B79478FC15 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10607 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jul 2010 17:31:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2010 17:31:30 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=eAtGuMNE1SR/ef8n7KvuC42812hiikfkoS489Bv8F5GeN8O1ePXvGht4shLKQCMS2D+zVsa1CXi80ENdBLt6SMYEHwZ4OBZO3S078d47QQViVak2tozpRd5O7DjqUd38; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Od52u-0000Qk-Sg for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:31:29 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:29:37 -0600 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:29:37 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100725172937.GB85893@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100724185925.GA69480@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20100724214725.GA82251@guilt.hydra> <20100725134730.GA5685@RawFedDogs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wq9mPyueHGvFACwf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100725134730.GA5685@RawFedDogs.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: BSD logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:31:30 -0000 --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 08:47:30AM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 03:47:25PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > =20 > > Actually, "daemon" is a Latinization of the Greek "daimon". Daimon is > > pronounced something more like "die-mahn", but (being from the Latin) > > daemon is prounounced "dee-mohn". Unix tradition holds that "daemon" is > > pronounced similarly to the Latin fashion (in practice, roughly like > > "dee-muhn" by English speakers). >=20 > I guess that depends on which period of Latin one studies. From Latin > Pronunciation Demystified: >=20 > http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/latinpro.pdf >=20 > ae like English ai in aisle >=20 > Which is how I pronounce ae in Latin. On the other hand, I've always > pronounced daemon like day-mohn, probably from hearing Jon Pertwee > pronounce it that way in the Doctor Who episode The D=E6mons. Without downloading a PDF and reading it . . . do you know what Latin variant is used in that document? Is it classical, church, or scientifically bastardized Latin (for instance)? I'm curious. I know that in at least some contexts the Latin pronunciation is more "dee" than "dai" for daemon, and that "dee" is the pronunciation generally considered "correct" for server processes in Unix systems. Beyond that, it's entirely possible there are other pronunciations of which I am not aware -- though I'm pretty sure "day" is solely an artifact of people trying to figure out how to pronounce terms that contain the ae (or the =E6 ligature) without actually trying to look it up. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxMdIEACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXfawCgybrxbpE2POLwks1h04CsRJa3 B3AAnR0RppJOdesQwZHCmN/pNtn9MQhE =8ocr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf--