From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 8:20:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586D737B41D; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.2) with ESMTP id DAA29703; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 03:20:40 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 03:20:40 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: questions-digest V5 #968 (sexing the BSD daemon) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, questions-digest wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:36:02 +1030 > From: Greg Lehey > Subject: Gender (was: The BSD daemon) > > On Sunday, 6 January 2002 at 7:35:33 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:47:32PM -0500, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > >> Oliver orated, [..] Pardon responding to -digest, but I must congratulate you for winding this whole linguistic diversion so neatly back around onto itself: > Oh, yes, Greek has similar rules. "Dæmon" has a gender based on its > form as well. It's neuter. Just like our lil' beastie. That's nice, we can move on, refreshed :-) Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message