Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:18:22 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: brett@peloton.runet.edu, des@flood.ping.uio.no Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de, rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <200004092118.AAA11862@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <xzp3dovno4r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> > > Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> writes: > > > > As I noted in some other message, I only know French as it pertains to > > biking so I don't know if that's the correct word, but 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. I've only heard the story from English speaking people, so it seems that you have more right than wrong there, -DES. - Giorgos Keramidas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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