On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:36:35PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> writes: > > > What would that be when you talk about the Hurd in another language? > > It would sound a bit strange to say something like 'Jeg skal > > installere the Hurd'. (I'm going to install the Hurd, in Norwegian). > > My preference is to use the normal native direct article. And take his word for it, this is the bastard who saddled us with the term in the first place. :) Otherwise, the GNU kernel would have had the much cuter and non-article-encumbered name "Alix", and might have taken off much earlier. ;-) -- G. Branden Robinson | A celibate clergy is an especially Debian GNU/Linux | good idea, because it tends to branden@debian.org | suppress any hereditary propensity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
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