Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:39:56 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <19981227113956.E12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981226180014.057aee50@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Sat, Dec 26, 1998 at 06:01:09PM -0700 References: <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <4.1.19981225181200.05a201b0@mail.lariat.org> <xzpg1a3mzhe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19981226131644.I12346@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981226104824.05822710@mail.lariat.org> <36854A89.B393D402@uk.radan.com> <19981227112355.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981226180014.057aee50@mail.lariat.org>
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On Saturday, 26 December 1998 at 18:01:09 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. URL? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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