From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 26 17:05:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20912 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20905 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:05:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA15556; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:05:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981226180014.057aee50@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:01:09 -0700 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) In-Reply-To: <19981227112355.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36854A89.B393D402@uk.radan.com> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <4.1.19981225181200.05a201b0@mail.lariat.org> <19981226131644.I12346@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981226104824.05822710@mail.lariat.org> <36854A89.B393D402@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:23 AM 12/27/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> And almost daily, we hear Microsoft referred to as >>> a "JUG-ger-naut" (the original Hindi is "ja-ga-NATH," a name for >>> the god Vishnu). > >Well, you could hardly talk about ``original Hindi'' in this context. >Obviously it derives from Vedic via Sanskrit, and there's still some >dispute about how the accents evolved. And considering it means >``Lord of the Earth'', it's a sobering thought when applied to >Microsoft. See my editorial on this very subject in the April/May 1998 issue of Visual Developer magazine. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message