From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 26 17:10:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21502 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:10:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21495 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA22030; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:39:54 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA26284; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:39:56 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981227113956.E12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:39:56 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) 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> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981226180014.057aee50@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Sat, Dec 26, 1998 at 06:01:09PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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