Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:12:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P-Day tomorrow! Message-ID: <199809082112.OAA00815@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 Sep 1998 22:23:49 %2B0200." <xzplnnus696.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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> Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes: > > ...And if it's every rolled in, I insist that it be called... > > > > "non-spacing Umlaat day" > > Why "Umlaut"? Why does everybody have to call that ¨ an umlaut? Why > does the HTML entity for ï have to be ï? Why use a German word > when there's a perfectly good English word for the bloody double-dot: > DIARESIS for chrissake! "Diaresis" is either Latin or Greek for "two dots". Latin, Greek, German - who cares? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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