From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 12:04:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25DC016A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034A443D55 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:04:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.5] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i3LJ4Ggp047923; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:04:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040421191223.03ed1a88@imap.sfu.ca> References: <200404202124.50967.dgw@liwest.at> <20040421110548.20d8e75c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> <6.0.1.1.1.20040421191223.03ed1a88@imap.sfu.ca> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:04:00 +0200 To: Colin Percival From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: Chris Pressey cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:04:26 -0000 At 7:28 PM +0100 2004/04/21, Colin Percival wrote: >>I challenge you to defend this (Sapir-Worfian) claim with a specific >>example. :) > > I'm not a biblical scholar, but I've been told that the word in > Isaiah 7:14 which is often translated as "virgin" was used at the > time to mean both "virgin" and "young woman". Presumably the > original author knew which he (or she) meant, but the precise > meaning was lost in translation. Actually, the original meaning was "unmarried". For someone who has never had sex before, the word used was translated as "chaste". Unfortunately, no one ever uses chaste anymore, and the mis-use virgin to mean something quite different. Kind of like the way the word "hacker" has been abused. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.