* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
@ 2003-08-16 0:40 rob pike, esq.
2003-08-16 2:16 ` David Presotto
2003-08-16 2:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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From: rob pike, esq. @ 2003-08-16 0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mirtchov, 9fans
> 'one of its kind', in the sense that nobody else is doing it right ;)
"Plan 9 is a Grid operating system sui generis"
the grammar is wrong, to my classically trained earlobe.
make your own substition and see how it sounds:
"Plan 9 is a Grid operating system one of its kind".
-rob
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
2003-08-16 0:40 [9fans] The 9grid rob pike, esq.
@ 2003-08-16 2:16 ` David Presotto
2003-08-16 5:06 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-08-16 15:36 ` ron minnich
2003-08-16 2:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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From: David Presotto @ 2003-08-16 2:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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Actually, if you translate the latin it is
Plan 9 is a Grid operating system of its own kind.
sui generis is a possessive form (genus suum would be the subjective).
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From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
Date: Fri Aug 15 17:40:15 PDT 2003
Message-ID: <66e287e25e5bac3fe776ec72815b7458@mightycheese.com>
> 'one of its kind', in the sense that nobody else is doing it right ;)
"Plan 9 is a Grid operating system sui generis"
the grammar is wrong, to my classically trained earlobe.
make your own substition and see how it sounds:
"Plan 9 is a Grid operating system one of its kind".
-rob
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
2003-08-16 0:40 [9fans] The 9grid rob pike, esq.
2003-08-16 2:16 ` David Presotto
@ 2003-08-16 2:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-08-16 4:13 ` [9fans] The 9grid. --- useful latin phrases nehal
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From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2003-08-16 2:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>> 'one of its kind', in the sense that nobody else is doing it right ;)
>
> "Plan 9 is a Grid operating system sui generis"
>
> the grammar is wrong, to my classically trained earlobe.
> make your own substition and see how it sounds:
> "Plan 9 is a Grid operating system one of its kind".
This whole exchange reminds me of this scene from Monty Python's
"Life of Brian":
Centurion: What's this then? Romanes eunt domus? People call around marnays they go the house?
Brian: It...it says: "Romans go home."
Centurion: No, it doesn't.
Brian: Aih.
Centurion: What's Latin for Romans? Come on!
Brian: Aih! Aah! Romanus!
Centurion: Goes like...?
Brian: Anis?
Centurion: Vocative plural of anis is...?
Brian: Ani?
Centurion: Romani...Eunt? What is eunt?
Brian: "Go"! De...
Centurion: Conjugate the verb "go"!
Brian: Aah...ere, eo, is, it, imus, itis, eunt.
Centurion: So eunt is...?
Brian: Aah, ehm...third person plural present indicative. Ehm..."they go".
Centurion: But "Romans go home" is an order, so you must use the...?
Brian: Aih! Imperative!
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: Ehm, oh...oh, ehm...i, i!
Centurion: How many Romans?
Brian: Aah! it's...plural, plural! Ite! Ite!
Centurion: Ite.
Brian: Aah, ah.
Centurion: Domus? Nominative?
Brian: Ah, ah?
Centurion: "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
Brian: Ehm...ehm...dative sir?
Sword: [Slinskt]
Brian: Aih! Ooh! Not dative, not the dative, sir! Nah, aah! Ooh! The...accusative! Accusative! Aah! Domum, sir! Ad domum!
Aah, ooh!
Centurion: Except that domus takes the...?
Brian: Aah! The locative, sir! Aah!
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: Domum! Aah, ah, aah...
Centurion: Domum...um. Understand?
Brian: Yes, sir!
Centurion: Now, write that a hundred times!
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid. --- useful latin phrases
2003-08-16 2:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
@ 2003-08-16 4:13 ` nehal
2003-08-16 4:36 ` [9fans] The 9grid boyd, rounin
2003-08-16 15:36 ` ron minnich
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From: nehal @ 2003-08-16 4:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A218882
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
2003-08-16 2:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-08-16 4:13 ` [9fans] The 9grid. --- useful latin phrases nehal
@ 2003-08-16 4:36 ` boyd, rounin
2003-08-16 15:36 ` ron minnich
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From: boyd, rounin @ 2003-08-16 4:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
yeah, conguate the verb to go ...
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
2003-08-16 2:16 ` David Presotto
@ 2003-08-16 5:06 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-08-16 5:43 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-08-16 10:02 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-08-16 15:36 ` ron minnich
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From: rob pike, esq. @ 2003-08-16 5:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> sui generis is a possessive form (genus suum would be the subjective).
what about the posterior informal?
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
2003-08-16 5:06 ` rob pike, esq.
@ 2003-08-16 5:43 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-08-16 5:49 ` boyd, rounin
2003-08-16 10:02 ` Bruce Ellis
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From: andrey mirtchovski @ 2003-08-16 5:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
sui generis adj : constituting a class of its own; unique; "a history book sui generis";
WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
2003-08-16 5:43 ` andrey mirtchovski
@ 2003-08-16 5:49 ` boyd, rounin
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From: boyd, rounin @ 2003-08-16 5:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
sounds like to me that rob is being gratuitously a pain.
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
2003-08-16 5:06 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-08-16 5:43 ` andrey mirtchovski
@ 2003-08-16 10:02 ` Bruce Ellis
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From: Bruce Ellis @ 2003-08-16 10:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
no, that was when andrew hume was still in the building.
----- Original Message -----
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
> > sui generis is a possessive form (genus suum would be the subjective).
>
> what about the posterior informal?
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
2003-08-16 2:16 ` David Presotto
2003-08-16 5:06 ` rob pike, esq.
@ 2003-08-16 15:36 ` ron minnich
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From: ron minnich @ 2003-08-16 15:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, David Presotto wrote:
> Actually, if you translate the latin it is
>
> Plan 9 is a Grid operating system of its own kind.
well, that was my translation but i'm just an EE, so what do I know.
ron
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* Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
2003-08-16 2:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-08-16 4:13 ` [9fans] The 9grid. --- useful latin phrases nehal
2003-08-16 4:36 ` [9fans] The 9grid boyd, rounin
@ 2003-08-16 15:36 ` ron minnich
2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: ron minnich @ 2003-08-16 15:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> >> 'one of its kind', in the sense that nobody else is doing it right ;)
> >
> > "Plan 9 is a Grid operating system sui generis"
> >
> > the grammar is wrong, to my classically trained earlobe.
> > make your own substition and see how it sounds:
> > "Plan 9 is a Grid operating system one of its kind".
>
> This whole exchange reminds me of this scene from Monty Python's
> "Life of Brian":
.
.
.
maybe I should have just put this on there instead :)
ron
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