Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:17:01 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <20000410101700.B317@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004091541050.3039-100000@peloton.runet.edu>; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 03:44:38PM -0400 References: <xzp3dovno4r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004091541050.3039-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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> > > apparently French physicists were annoyed when John Wheeler coined > > > the word "black hole" because it translated to anus. > > > Bollocks. To me, it sounds like just another one of those the-french- > > are-so-weird stories the anglosaxon are so fond of telling. > > Believe it or not as you will - since I've heard the story directly from > Wheeler, Thorne and my thesis advisor (who did his PhD w/ Wheeler and > studied under Thorne at CalTech) I'll take their word for it. I just asked a French teacher of my acquaintance. She said it's true, it can be interpreted in that way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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