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From: Harald Arnesen <skogtun@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:34:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2419313d-a951-ba2d-48a4-6b0bf225f2eb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210618210047.5uogF%steffen@sdaoden.eu>

Steffen Nurpmeso [18.06.2021 23:00]:

> 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, "böge" is
> also the conjugation of "bending" "er böge" thus "he would bend")

In Norway, "bøg" is an older, derogative description of a homosexual
male. Fits in with the German meaning "bent".
-- 
Hilsen Harald

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-19 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-15 22:16 Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-15 22:54 ` John Cowan
2021-06-15 23:44   ` Dan Cross
2021-06-16  3:48     ` Rob Pike
2021-06-16  4:13       ` Bakul Shah
2021-06-16 21:57         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 20:19           ` John Cowan
2021-06-18 21:00             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 22:59               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 13:34               ` Harald Arnesen [this message]
2021-06-19 13:39                 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-06-19  7:57             ` [TUHS] Bugs, Bööge and Bogeymen (was: 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-19 15:48               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 15:52                 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-06-19 16:36                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 21:05                 ` Harald Arnesen
2021-06-20  3:30                   ` arnold
2021-06-16  1:06   ` [TUHS] Bug etymology " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-16  8:16 [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors Jason Stevens

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