From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 9 21:47:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96CF737B684 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:47:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 363 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2000 04:47:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 10 Apr 2000 04:47:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 341 invoked by uid 211); 10 Apr 2000 04:47:01 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:17:01 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Taylor Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <20000410101700.B317@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Brett Taylor , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 03:44:38PM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > apparently French physicists were annoyed when John Wheeler coined > > > the word "black hole" because it translated to anus. > > > Bollocks. To me, it sounds like just another one of those the-french- > > are-so-weird stories the anglosaxon are so fond of telling. > > Believe it or not as you will - since I've heard the story directly from > Wheeler, Thorne and my thesis advisor (who did his PhD w/ Wheeler and > studied under Thorne at CalTech) I'll take their word for it. I just asked a French teacher of my acquaintance. She said it's true, it can be interpreted in that way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message