From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 11 6:25:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071B237BA5C for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp3.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.18]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA19713 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:24:41 +0200 (GMT) Received: (qmail 3991 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Apr 2000 12:11:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:11:02 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000411151102.B2130@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cq15m$1mbp$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000409211409.D234@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:08:25AM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:08:25AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Mark Ovens writes: > > On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:17:48PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > How's he gonna spell d?mon? > > Probably "demon". The use of ae-dipthong (sp?) > > Diphthong. One of the weirder words of the english language. Well, it's easy to see why this sounds `weird' in English. It's a Greek word, written with the proper latin characters in order to *sound* the same as it does in Greek. `Diphthongon' in Greek means something that is constructed by two `Phthongos'. The latter meaning a single letter, one can see that diphthongos means (in Greek): two-letters. It seems then, that this is an English word, borrowed from Greek. Of course, Greek has borrowed from English, French, Italian, etc. too. But that is another story. - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message