From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 18 17:12:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA17650 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 17:12:59 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA17642 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 17:12:57 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA02956; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 01:11:47 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199501190111.BAA02956@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Internationalization (was Re: CVS stuff) To: bakul@netcom.com (Bakul Shah) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 01:11:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199501181857.KAA24197@netcom5.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Jan 18, 95 10:57:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 963 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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