Re: Snow Leopard...

In article <001c53c8$0$11354$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The only possible resolution would be to listen to God (Steve Job's
keynote) to see how he pronounces it :-) After all, that is how
confirmation came that it was OS ten and not OS ex :-)

I think that that's revisionism, like KDE, "the K doesn't stand for
_anything_" bullshit, it once meant "Kool" but the authors got older and
richer and decided it wasn't kool at all. It was OS Ex at first, because
there was no OS 9 at the time (just -- OS X came out in early 1999, OS 9
in October of that year). The X had to do with X as in NeXt and, well, X.

Anyway, English moves around and changes with usage, unlike the romance
languages. That's why we can understand those Russian or Afghani cab
drivers in Manhattan.

Here's some interesting stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_vowel_shift

Bad French, on the other hand, is almost impossible to understand, why
the froggies have a reputation for being snotty. They're not really
being snotty, they really can't understand.
--
Suddenly he realized that he was alone
with a giant halfwit on a dark deserted street.
-- Chester Himes

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