Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 22:44:29 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> Cc: Jason <kib@mediaone.net>, Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, ldmservices@charter.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why do you support Yahoo! Message-ID: <20001223224429.H48060@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <072301c06a2e$11c77ca0$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:38:55PM %2B1000 References: <002301c06a1d$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>
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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
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