Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:56:19 +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: <19990828145619.I13904@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37C7722E.B13768AA@aracnet.com>; from dmp@aracnet.com on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:22:54PM -0700 References: <19990827013014.AE8C31559A@hub.freebsd.org> <37C74C4F.659542E4@aracnet.com> <19990828143751.H13904@freebie.lemis.com> <37C7722E.B13768AA@aracnet.com>
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On Friday, 27 August 1999 at 22:22:54 -0700, dmp@aracnet.com wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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". > > Smooth book plug. :-) > > I'm a little rusty on my Greek, so I'll have to trust you on that > one I guess. But if it's adapted to Latin spelling, then it would > have to be pronounced die-mon, wouldn't it? That depends on your opinion about Latin pronunciation :-) I'd guess that in classical times each letter would have been pronounced separately (da-ey-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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