Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 01:11:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: bakul@netcom.com (Bakul Shah) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Internationalization (was Re: CVS stuff) Message-ID: <199501190111.BAA02956@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199501181857.KAA24197@netcom5.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Jan 18, 95 10:57:40 am
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In reply to Bakul Shah who said > > You speak of English bias of mailing lists and Usenet but > the English bias of Unix etc. is much more pervasive. How > would one translate `cat', `sh', `uucp' etc. to other > languages? Without English language background these words > make _no_ sense. But it would be equally nonsensical to Hmm, interesting viewpoint :-) A cat is a small furry animal that has an annoying habit of sleeping on clothes that have just been ironed and you were hoping to wear out that night. `sh` is likely an abbreviation of what you generally say when you find the afore mentioned cat lying on your clothes. `uucp` obviously slipped into unix by mistake since it's clearly not English. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK
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