From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87216 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What does "Ma" mean, from "Ma Gnus"? Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:27:53 -0400 Message-ID: <878tw6n5va.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <27E73A6C-10C8-4F08-89ED-6F5B51839B1C@yw.doraji.xyz> <8737mf75nv.fsf@alex.chromebook> <8660rbnll3.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470702494 17720 195.159.176.226 (9 Aug 2016 00:28:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 00:28:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M35436=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 09 02:28:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bWutu-0004VW-GU for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 02:28:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bWutt-0003ox-8o for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:28:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bWutq-0003om-Nd for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:28:06 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bWutp-0002KN-HC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:28:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bWuto-0000qu-48 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 02:28:04 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bWutm-0004P2-9w for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 02:28:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ADOEQGxc7kNt/WYWU7IYSqnRLdQ= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87216 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Byung-Hee HWANG "(황병희)" wrote: > >>> I am in subway, Seoul. This is evening time. >>> While reading the Gnus history at Internet, >>> i have some question. What does "Ma" mean, >>> from "Ma Gnus"? Also is that Japanese word >>> or English word or Norwegian word? My head >>> is swimming with this question. Still there >>> is no answer in my dictionary, in my >>> google search. >> >> At wikitionary, i saw Magnus' meaning, it is >> "Great". So "Ma Gnus" is "The Great >> Gnus!"?!?! >> >> Wonderful world!!! > > Magnus is "great" (or "big") as well as a very > common name. I always thought of it as > Scandinavian in origin as it is very common > here, but even as I kid I read the Transformers > comic, and there is an "Ultra Magnus" character > there so perhaps it is international as > well (or "by now"). > > But, "Ma Gnus" may be an unintentional pun as > the "Ma" is actually the Unicode 0x771F char, > which is the Han char for "real, actual, true, > genuine" and the Japanese "Ma" (or "MAKOTO > MAKOTONI MA", whatever that means). [1] It's always confused me, because that character is pronounced "zhen" in Chinese. It's always messed with my head a little bit.