Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 09:28:04 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Bob Van Valzah <Bob@BGPBook.Com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>, freebsd-doc <doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Capitalization (was: Minor 'historic' flaw in FreeBSD article "Bootstrapping Vinum") Message-ID: <20020529092804.B31668@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1022625361.32852.18.camel@NewStorm.WhiteBarn.Com> References: <20020528222333.K25512-100000@hades> <1022625361.32852.18.camel@NewStorm.WhiteBarn.Com>
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On Tuesday, 28 May 2002 at 17:35:59 -0500, Bob Van Valzah wrote: > The section in question is paraphrased from an E-mail message Greg sent > me. I wouldn't know accusative form from ablative form, so I'll leave > Greg and Matthias to work that one out. > > Here's the original interchange between Greg and me: Ah, this crossed over with my reply. >>> [What is the] derivation of the name. Is it latin? >> >> Yes. >> >>> A web search didn't yield much. >> >> That's sad. >> >>> If you wouldn't mind folks knowing, this might be a good place to >>> document the origins. >> >> Sure. The word means "wine", but it's more important because of a >> Latin proverb "in wine, truth": in other words, durnkards have >> difficulty lying. But in Latin it's "In vino veritas". It's vino and >> not vinum because of Latin syntax (ablative instead of nominative >> case, if you're interested). If you wan to include this, try to make >> it look funny, and let me have a couple of chances too ;-) > > I don't think I succeeded in making it look funny, so any revision to > increase the humor value would also be appreciated. Looks OK to me. > It looks like I can be blamed for the gratuitous capitalization in > the article. With the embedded capital letter in my surname, I > probably have a natural tendency to over capitalize :-) Well, as I said, I don't have a problem with the capitalization. But I'm curious that you write your name "Van Valzah". It looks vaguely Dutch, but there they'd write it "van Valzah". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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