Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:34:37 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, dg@root.com, Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>, obrien@NUXI.com, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 in -current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981103112903.22463A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811030946560.3018-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > Yeah, if I had my druthers (and what the hell are "druthers" anyway, > > > and who here has ever had any that they knew of? Why is English such > > > a peculiar language? And why... Erm, excuse me, I guess that's not > > > really important right now), I'd want to see the IPv6 bits integrated > > > with the following provisos: > > > > English is a truly bizarre language. I'll dig up my OED this evening and > > let you know :-P. > > Its some kind of bizarre contraction of 'would rather' I think. So, finally having found an OED, here is some etymology: 1895 Dialect Notes I. 388 Bein's I caint have my druthers an' set still, I cal 'late I'd better pearten up an' go 'long. 1896 'Mark Twain' Tom Sawyer, Detective ix. 74 'Any way you druther have it, that is the way I druther have it. He' .' 'There ain't any druthers about it, Huck Finn; nobody said anything about druthers.' 1941 W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee (1948) xxii. 292 'Your ruthers is my ruthers' (what you would rather is what I would rather). Certainly the most amiable and appeasing phrase in any language, the language used being not English but deep Southern. This suggests, "I'd Rather". But it's a little hard to say. I wonder whether we couldn't rename sysctl to druther. druther -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 Maybe all followups should be sent to freebsd-chat. :) Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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