Re: Not so silly question about the name of the Hurd

[Daniel E Baumann <baumannd@msoe.edu>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:37:29PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:27:44PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> 
> > Um... it's "die Herde" and therefore by your reasoning "die Hurd". I
> > defended this designation here a few months ago, but most of the
> > others didn't find it as cool as I did.
> 
> Hmmm.  I would feel really weird going to a conference in Germany with 
> people wearing T-shirts that said "Die Hurd". =)

Well if you consider neitzsche and his existentialism, the "Herd" is actually
a bad thing and should be rebelled against :P. So in that context I would 
think the words would be approrpriate.

Dan
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