Re: localisation in system wide daemons
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> The etymology of the word is not english: (Hindu + stan). When
> incorporating it into English, the word came with a well defined
> meaning.
Apparently the english authors who used it didn't realize that, and I
assume their usage reflects the general usage at the time they were
writing. Anyway, for whatever reason, the given usage was present, and
reasonably common, _in english_ at one time. The dictionary documents
that, as is their job.
-miles
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Any man who is a triangle, has thee right, when in Cartesian Space, to
have angles, which when summed, come to know more, nor no less, than
nine score degrees, should he so wish. [TEMPLE OV THEE LEMUR]
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