From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 28 19:48:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F7C37B409; Tue, 28 May 2002 19:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5700E81437; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:18:33 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:18:33 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Wouter Van Hemel Cc: Bob Van Valzah , Giorgos Keramidas , Matthias Andree , freebsd-doc Subject: Re: Minor 'historic' flaw in FreeBSD article "Bootstrapping Vinum" Message-ID: <20020529121833.A82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020528222333.K25512-100000@hades> <1022625361.32852.18.camel@NewStorm.WhiteBarn.Com> <1022636075.28350.49.camel@cocaine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1022636075.28350.49.camel@cocaine> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 29 May 2002 at 3:34:35 +0200, Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 00:35, Bob Van Valzah wrote: >> The section in question is paraphrased from an E-mail message Greg sent >> me. I wouldn't know accusative form from ablative form, so I'll leave >> Greg and Matthias to work that one out. >> > > It's either nominative or accusative. Ablative would be 'vino', as in 'in > vino veritas', since the location is static, i.e. it's not about the > motion but the position. > > What is your real question, if it involves latin, maybe I can help > out... It was below: >>>> --- /tmp/article.sgml.orig Tue May 28 00:51:20 2002 >>>> +++ /tmp/article.sgml Tue May 28 00:52:04 2002 >>>> @@ -287,9 +287,9 @@ >>>> &vinum.ap; was inspired by the Veritas Volume Manager, but >>>> was not derived from it. >>>> The name is a play on that history and the Latin adage >>>> - In Vino Veritas >>>> - (Vino is the accusative form of >>>> - Vinum). >>>> + in vino veritas >>>> + (vino is the ablative form of >>>> + vinum). >>>> Literally translated, that is Truth lies in wine hinting that >>>> drunkards have a hard time lying. >>>> The question has been answered, unless a new one remains: "Where did the word \"accusative\" come from?". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message