Date: 09 Apr 2000 20:08:20 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <xzp3dovno4r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Brett Taylor's message of "Sun, 9 Apr 2000 11:25:49 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004091121110.2390-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> writes: > On 9 Apr 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> writes: > > > If you think they were touchy about "hot dog" you can probably > > > imagine the uproar when physicists started talking about "black > > holes." I'll let you figure out what the French word for that is. > > "trou noir". What's the problem? > As I noted in some other message, I only know French as it pertains to > biking so I don't know if that's the correct word, but apparently French > physicists were annoyed when John Wheeler coined the word "black hole" > because it translated to anus. Bollocks. To me, it sounds like just another one of those the-french- are-so-weird stories the anglosaxon are so fond of telling. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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