From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 13:51:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7198716A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4700043D1F for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:51:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.5] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i3LKp1gn054360; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:51:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040421124817.5811bddb.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> References: <200404202124.50967.dgw@liwest.at> <20040421110548.20d8e75c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> <6.0.1.1.1.20040421191223.03ed1a88@imap.sfu.ca> <20040421124817.5811bddb.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:45:59 +0200 To: Chris Pressey From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:51:10 -0000 At 12:48 PM -0700 2004/04/21, Chris Pressey wrote: > But unless someone can show that it is actually *not possible* to > distinguish between "unmarried" and "chaste" in Aramaic, I think the > challenge still stands. :) The word virgin is distinct from chaste in English, and I'm sure that Aramaic can distinguish between them as well. The issue is not whether they could distinguish between them two thousand years ago, but what has happened since. Of course, you could always ask Mel Gibson. ;-) -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.