From: steffen@sdaoden.eu (Steffen Nurpmeso)
Subject: [TUHS] Origin of 'kill -9'?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:51:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171115225112.NS_80%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1A99490E-E7E7-40A8-BBEE-F50980B6A0D4@gmail.com>
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Don Hopkins <don at DonHopkins.com> wrote:
|> I think 9 has ties to "pain", but the number that has connection \
|> to "death" in Japanese is 4 (四 shi, "four", which sounds like 死 \
|> shi, "death").
|>
|> -嘘.
|
|9 means “no” in German.
I wonder whether Plan9 used to be translated as plan-no, then.
Nine while nine (...waiting for the train).
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-14 19:03 Dan Cross
2017-11-14 20:07 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-14 20:11 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-14 22:35 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-15 21:52 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-15 22:51 ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2017-11-15 23:01 ` Steve Simon
2017-11-16 6:00 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-16 6:03 ` Warner Losh
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