Re: What does "Ma" mean, from "Ma Gnus"?

["Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)" <soyeomul@doraji.xyz>]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> 께서 쓰시길,
 《記事 全文 <8660rbnll3.fsf@student.uu.se> 에서》:

> 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]
>     
> How it works in terms of technology is
> described here [2]
>
>     Development is done using "named versions",
>     whose first letters run backwards in the
>     alphabet; "No Gnus" v0.19 was released in
>     early 2012, and development transitioned to
>     "Ma Gnus". No named version ever reaches
>     1.0, instead when it is considered stable
>     enough for general release, it sheds its
>     name and gets packaged with as simply "Gnus
>     <version number>".
>
> Here is a chart of the Japanese alphabet
>
>     http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eHJ73pG03uE/T0D2xd0Q1iI/AAAAAAAAAkM/9zU_SPcUe0U/s1600/Katakana_image.jpg
>
> So now it should be a quick fix to figure out
> what the next version name should be :)
>
> [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/771f/index.htm
>
> [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Ma-Gnus.html
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus

So the Japanese Kanji "真"'s pronounce is [ma]?!!! Now i got it what "Ma
Gnus" is. It seems Lars is literary man with genius.

Then, In my definition, "Ma Gnus" is "The Great Gnus with True Heart", i
like this value for "Ma Gnus". 

Thanks for hints, Emanuel^^

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