From: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
To: Categories List <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Re: "role" vs. "r\^ole"
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:39:22 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IfzvI-0002GS-Ma@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Let me tell you a (slightly) amusing story. Beno Eckmann warned me that
all librarians would hate me if I called it "$*$-Autonomous Categories".
I saw his point immediately and had every intention of changing it. But
in the process of getting it typed and so on, I just plain forgot. So
although I do object to *-autonomous (without the dollar signs that put it
on the line), I would have no problem with star-autonomous.
On ne saurait penser a tout, as they say on some obscure langauge.
Michael
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Dusko Pavlovic wrote:
> yes, that is an interesting question. in fact, i have a similar question
> about the words star and dagger. although they are perfectly acceptable
> english words on their own, in the context of categories we write
> *-autonomous and %-compact, even in the titles, where star-autonomous and
> dagger-compact would say the same, just look easier to pronounce.
>
> but then again, with my name and surname gaining and losing accents as i
> go, maybe i should not ask such questions.
>
> -- du$ko
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