Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:14:47 +0300 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products Message-ID: <19980414061447.45261@techunix.technion.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980413212206.12344H-100000@james.hwcn.org>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 09:31:09PM -0400 References: <19980413201541.65522@snark.thyrsus.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.980413212206.12344H-100000@james.hwcn.org>
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You, Tim Vanderhoek, were spotted writing this on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 09:31:09PM -0400: > On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > Linux, because (a) I believe you, and (b) it doesn't matter. I think I > > saw "Mene, mene, tekel, uparshin" on your wall when you guys failed to > > "parsin", I think, although for all I know "uparshin" could be a > legitimate alternative. :) Well, actually, the correct word is "upharsin" (and not uparshin) or "parsin" (from a different translation, although I forget which). I don't have a Hebrew Bible nearby so I can't check "the original", but my guess would be that it has "upharsin" - the "u" bit introduces future tense and p->ph is required in this case by Hebrew phonetical rules (it's actually the same Hebrew letter). That's an odd thing to write about in freebsd-chat, too ;) -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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