From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4BD4D1D7.80207@fastmail.net> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:35:51 -0500 From: Alex Lee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9pre) Gecko/20100217 Lightning/1.0b1 Shredder/3.0.3pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <20100416115756.GA1107@polynum.com> <4BCC10F4020000CC00026FF4@wlgw07.wlu.ca> <201004242314.24052.corey@bitworthy.net><201004242314.24052.corey@bitworthy.net> <000001cae48b$1ca3bbc0$55eb3340$@gmail.com> <4BD48AE8020000CC000279CB@wlgw07.wlu.ca> <000001cae4cc$0dd3b500$297b1f00$@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000001cae4cc$0dd3b500$297b1f00$@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0dd718ce-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 04/25/2010 06:07 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-bounces@9fans.net] On Beha= lf Of Karljurgen Feuerherm >> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 6:33 PM >> To: 'Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs' >> Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women >> >> From the Oxford Encyclopedic Dictionary: >> >> ethos. n. the characteristic spirit or attitudes of a community, peopl= e, or system, or of a literary work, etc. >=20 > Odd considering that=E2=80=99s the Greek definition of ethikos. I just = love how the English language can't keep things straight. > Oh well, no use getting into a language debate. Thanks for pointing tha= t out, I'll have to remember that. I'm not saying that English doesn't often mess things up, but in this case I think it does all right. =E1=BC=A6=CE=B8=CE=BF=CF=82 only means "a= ccustomed place" in its most literal sense. Otherwise it can mean custom, disposition, character, etc.: http://artflx.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.31:3:159.LSJ =E1=BC=A0=CE=B8=CE=B9=CE=BA=CF=8C=CF=82 is the adjective form (just think= of other -=CE=B9=CE=BA=CF=8C=CF=82 words, like poetic or economic). Alex (... hoping that it is not part of the 9fans ethos to get too annoyed but this sort of off-topic post) --=20 alexlee@fastmail.net