Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:37:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dmp@aracnet.com Cc: Michael Henry <mhenry@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au>, fredrik.carlen@telia.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Name o' daemon? Message-ID: <19990828143751.H13904@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37C74C4F.659542E4@aracnet.com>; from dmp@aracnet.com on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:41:19PM -0700 References: <19990827013014.AE8C31559A@hub.freebsd.org> <37C74C4F.659542E4@aracnet.com>
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On Friday, 27 August 1999 at 19:41:19 -0700, dmp@aracnet.com wrote: > Michael Henry wrote: >> >> Here's a snippet from one of Jordan Hubbard's recent posts to the >> -advocacy mailing list: >> >> >> P.S. Please don't call him "Chucky" anymore - it really offends Kirk >> and we don't need to do that. Just call him "the BSD daemon" or just >> "the daemon." Kirk says that he's not supposed to have a name anyway, >> and if he did, it would probably be "beastie" (not that I like that name >> much myself, so I just call him "the daemon", pronounced "day-mon"). > > I thought "daemon" was Latin? No, it's Greek, admittedly adapted into Latin spelling (see "The Complete FreeBSD" for the Greek spelling, which would be better rendered as "daimon". There's no evidence that it's pronounced differently from "demon". In ancient Greek it would presumably have been 'die-mon', and I think in modern Greek it's "dee-mon". 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-newbies" in the body of the message
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