From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 16:51: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 16:51:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A4137B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b030.otenet.gr [195.167.121.158]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eBO0p2h15862; Sun, 24 Dec 2000 02:51:02 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBNKiT306746; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 22:44:29 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 22:44:29 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Doug Young Cc: Jason , Jeremiah Gowdy , ldmservices@charter.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why do you support Yahoo! Message-ID: <20001223224429.H48060@hades.hell.gr> References: <002301c06a1d$a52783c0$19bad818@debbie> <002701c06a25$27e7c9d0$aa240018@cx443070b> <006a01c06a40$11ffc580$ad181f40@bignet.net> <06fc01c06a28$7d9c3840$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <00b401c06a45$4d279020$ad181f40@bignet.net> <072301c06a2e$11c77ca0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <072301c06a2e$11c77ca0$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:38:55PM +1000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:38:55PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > Were you aware where the word "politics" originated ?? > > Well firstly there's "poli" which comes from some old greek / roman / latin > / whatever and means "many" ..... then there's "ticks", which as we all > know are "bloodsucking parasites" .........ergo ..... policics means "many > bloodsucking parasites" !!!!!! Nice. Really nice! However, `politikos / politiki' is a word that comes from ancient Greek, and lives in modern Greek until this day. It means `of polis', i.e. one that `belongs to the "polis"', where `polis' is the Greek word for `city'. Of course a city's parasites, *do* belong to the city; among other things :-))) - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message