From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 1620 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2021 21:01:27 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 18 Jun 2021 21:01:27 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id DF3C19C9AC; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:01:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5084C9BD17; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:00:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D1BB59BD17; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:00:53 +1000 (AEST) Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFDC29BD16 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:00:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from kent.sdaoden.eu (kent.sdaoden.eu [10.5.0.2]) by sdaoden.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A09E16056; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:00:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by kent.sdaoden.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD5251164B; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:00:47 +0200 From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: John Cowan Message-ID: <20210618210047.5uogF%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: References: <20210615221659.ltbL6%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20210616215713.f1CA8%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Mail-Followup-To: John Cowan , Bakul Shah , Rob Pike , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.22-153-g062ff456ec OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc; preference=signencrypt BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society , Bakul Shah Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" John Cowan wrote in : |On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 5:57 PM Steffen Nurpmeso \ |wrote: |> (Only to clarify that =E2=80=9Eb=C3=B6gge=E2=80=9C is not a German word= to the best of my |> knowledge. I was looking, as it sounded so =C2=BBnorthern=C2=AB, | |And so it is: it's Low Saxon, and also exists in the compound form |"b=C3=B6ggel-mann", plainly cognate to British English "bogeyman", Americ= an |English "boogeyman". Or borrowed one way or the other: there is so much |borrowing and convergence in the Germanic languages around the North and |Baltic Seas that if we did not know the older varieties of these languages |we would never be able to work out just how they are related. This surely leads to nowhere without going into detail, and that is hard in respect to the dramatical losses that happened on archives etc., due to whatever reason. You may confuse personal opinion. That happens. To me it sounds rather like a modification of "Bogen", which can mean quite some different things itself, from a "bend" (so the profession of a wood-bender comes to mind at a glance, "b=C3=B6ge" is also the conjugation of "bending" "er b=C3=B6ge" thus "he would bend"), also the weapon "bow", so they could have been happy producers or unhappy consumers of such things as well. Of course a "Bogen" is also needed to play a Violin but putting some strings while a thunderstorm approaches, hm, so i stay clear from that, i "make a Bogen around it". Given how many right politicians have that name, i let it be good for now. Cheerio, --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)