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Re: Possible new name for "deity"



On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 01:33:14PM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> >>>>> "S" == Shaleh  <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:
>     S: I know how this sounds but.....  I do not like the sound of it.
>     S: It sounds odd, and its name does not reflect its use.
> 
> Moreover, I think many users from non-English speaking countries (at
> least I :-) would have no idea, how to pronounce this word and would
> use different "versions" of it.  Brr.

I'm a native English speaker and I'm not even sure myself.
But then we already have confusion about Linux, perhaps
some about Debian, ... why not? :-)

Hamish
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