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=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28210 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2021 20:20:35 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 18 Jun 2021 20:20:35 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9EB8C9C246; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:20:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E070D9BD17; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:19:53 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=ccil-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.i=@ccil-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.b="aSXWlzUW"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B0B609BD17; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:19:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-qv1-f53.google.com (mail-qv1-f53.google.com [209.85.219.53]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47C199BD16 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:19:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-qv1-f53.google.com with SMTP id g19so1336266qvx.12 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:19:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ccil-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=6WF6U/QSexKcl5hki7+ZGYajW3ym0HNthIHzrffrlow=; b=aSXWlzUWGsQZHbB57ckHksicXOgiaNqw2CoVVF6OEKbnUCxfoZ6Fabi7L/HEKAGWmG 4l0jGZmnkxAr4HjGftsRFYK/fDAIxNonwpR2EePLJSp1LxRFXAloEgbRhor3cSE08Bw0 0Ij9gaQD1Bl/xtlaHYrHBHU66OqCEMtkLImxFT+VdalHLe7IE2MkvzCmAWOFhtgUtV0x fvxk3oRYSBnHJdo3G7tjM1UmA1gVAT9eNO8GaSG3SmdFGsRKZIUj075QS6Bc5eMQAeqc dQ+XGQmgqWc82OVbvQI9NQZOYdkMHogbU3YzfnaA0wILwIlzw57vWK9FxJ2S2DN8Jb+D j7gA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=6WF6U/QSexKcl5hki7+ZGYajW3ym0HNthIHzrffrlow=; b=TCYbTW8EYPNNYbyxJ0AWu+JoVoI40lqInrO3bhinAj9JfgfWah04vlR1UZ5YgE+mNE sf5C5dQdXOKRa3MktE596zdkIiKkmAw3SUXjBGrfwxT2322edduTcFTwrbU3MVaBTD5n cdkVX8mNkVaK1DI+p8A0jpVcd8c7cE0dp/CMmPZ8GUFNhkf0JUY1c/BqjjomlUR2y0ev +9UrlKgBd4KCKl3+MLyyP/VWQ1KAw9iLUHSfcUV5AH+FQNnp9bFIqKcLUbMY63JOYtp5 Tr023eFE279WPK8xFy49pbirO7vX9SuWDLDr2XWDC17J+dlY3+5/R5PRR7UitVaA0Ado LVWg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533lq5UKmK90B/LuujISYU7BYBo/XgALpjw8fHuyILtmygik4chj 0Dju/hNXSKSAaKyz9HX4COjbC8KCjKybXNVu9ensAg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzVkbVlkJdzmyugKexHS56p+nCJ3DxtYd/B7Z74k6j6217SKyYe36rk1pBZ7vOsP/r1NgOB85HlrgNgFCi/Us4= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6214:1021:: with SMTP id k1mr7668370qvr.4.1624047588262; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:19:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20210615221659.ltbL6%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20210616215713.f1CA8%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <20210616215713.f1CA8%steffen@sdaoden.eu> From: John Cowan Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:19:37 -0400 Message-ID: To: Bakul Shah , Rob Pike , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000098d4ad05c5100b27" 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: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --00000000000098d4ad05c5100b27 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 t= o 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", American 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. John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Unless it was by accident that I had offended someone, I never apologized. --Quentin Crisp --00000000000098d4ad05c5100b27 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Wed, Jun 16, 2= 021 at 5:57 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
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(Only to clarify that =E2=80=9Eb=C3=B6gge=E2=80=9C is not a German word to = the best of my
knowledge.=C2=A0 I was looking, as it sounded so =C2=BBnorthern=C2=AB,
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And so it is: it's= Low Saxon, and also exists in the compound form "b=C3=B6ggel-mann&quo= t;, plainly cognate to British English "bogeyman", American Engli= sh "boogeyman".=C2=A0 Or borrowed one way or the other: there is = so much borrowing and convergence in the Germanic languages around the Nort= h and Baltic Seas that if we did not know the older varieties of these lang= uages we would never be able to work out just how they are related.



John Cowan =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= cowan@ccil.org
U= nless it was by accident that I had offended someone, I never apologized.=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 --Quentin Crisp
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