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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!whuang From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 19 Nov 1996 17:04:35 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 17 Message-ID: <56spb3$ebe@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> <56q2m4$8db@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: puree.ugcs.caltech.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26546 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1565 alt.folklore.computers:124928 j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: >Btw., `Czech', not `Check'. The latter is something different (even >in British English where people know how to differentiate between >`check' and `cheque', unlike you Americans ;-). The Chinese can't differentiate between "Czech" and "Jack," so don't worry about it too much. (I guess the Chinese don't know Jack.) Me? I can't differentiate Elliptic functions. -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm all for affirmative action...in athletics.