Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:20:23 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> Cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@ariadne.prth.tensor.pgs.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clusters, Distributed File Systems and the like. Message-ID: <19980619142023.36710@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <87k96fkw1z.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu>; from stephen farrell on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:28:56AM -0500 References: <199806180307.LAA27243@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> <87k96fkw1z.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu>
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On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:28:56AM -0500, stephen farrell wrote:
> Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@ariadne.prth.tensor.pgs.com> writes:
>
> > performance to be within cooee of the SP2s, but it's an interesting
> ^^^^^
> Within what??
In the languages of several of the nations of the Eastern part of the
Australian continent, Koori (rhymes with jury) was was the word for
"person". When people were walking in the bush and wondered if anyone
else was around, they would shout "Kooooooo-RI?" and the call if heard
would be returned.
When Europeans heard this, they missed the "r" and interpreted it as a
nonsense sound devised for its carrying qualities. After all, the word
wasn't in their dictionaries.
The Europeans began using it themselves as a general call over long
distances, pronouncing and spelling it as cooee. Originally, "within
cooee" meant close enough that "cooee" could be heard from that distance.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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