Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:01:09 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <4.1.19981226180014.057aee50@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19981227112355.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36854A89.B393D402@uk.radan.com> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <Your <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <4.1.19981225181200.05a201b0@mail.lariat.org> <xzpg1a3mzhe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19981226131644.I12346@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981226104824.05822710@mail.lariat.org> <36854A89.B393D402@uk.radan.com>
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At 11:23 AM 12/27/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> And almost daily, we hear Microsoft referred to as >>> a "JUG-ger-naut" (the original Hindi is "ja-ga-NATH," a name for >>> the god Vishnu). > >Well, you could hardly talk about ``original Hindi'' in this context. >Obviously it derives from Vedic via Sanskrit, and there's still some >dispute about how the accents evolved. And considering it means >``Lord of the Earth'', it's a sobering thought when applied to >Microsoft. See my editorial on this very subject in the April/May 1998 issue of Visual Developer magazine. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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