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From: steve@quintile.net (Steve Simon)
Subject: [TUHS] Origin of 'kill -9'?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:01:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A8D3D05-CF21-4E77-8ECD-B2DA328DE32F@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171115225112.NS_80%steffen@sdaoden.eu>

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I don’t agree the train was later, 
 "The one after nine oh nine” :-)

-Steve


> On 15 Nov 2017, at 22:51, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu> wrote:
> 
> 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)



  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-15 23:01 UTC|newest]

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
2017-11-15 23:01         ` Steve Simon [this message]
2017-11-16  6:00       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-16  6:03         ` Warner Losh

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