From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 21 10:52:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA27670 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 10:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27655 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 10:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA23234; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 19:51:53 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA29499; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 19:51:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA14456; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 19:37:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604211737.TAA14456@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A request about comments in programs To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 19:37:26 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604211000.UAA18538@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 21, 96 08:00:16 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > Collins German-English English-German Dictionary (copyright 1953 by Collins, > reprinted 1963): > Moot-point n. strittiger Punkt > Strittig a. in dispute My dictionary (abt. 5...10 years old) remaps ``moot point'' to ``point at issue'' after one full cycle. ;) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)