Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:45:22 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Turned off by FreeBSD daemons Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020423134357.02259dc0@nospam.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <3CC5B867.99B73EF8@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020423101142.02214ee0@nospam.lariat.org> <20020423115600.C73364@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20020424072924.A69537@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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At 01:39 PM 4/23/2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
>The world is rife with these things; it's impossible to be
>politically correct and completely cross-cultural (ask "pig
>sweat cola", otherwise known as "coca-cola" with the "proper"
>ideograms for a phonetically similar pronunciation, or the
>ill-fated Arrete 1100 UNIX systems -- ask a French person what
>"arręt", pronounced the same way, means).
Not to mention the Data General Nova ("No va" means "It doesn't
work" in both French and Spanish).
--Brett
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