Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:39:40PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote:
> Steve Bowman trying to find a good word to compliment debian-mentors:
>
> > Taking these items together, how about making up a really new word that
> > is really Debianspeak? You could have debee and deber :-) OTOH, the
> > best _word_ I've seen so far (that is, one that can be found in an
> > (English) dictionary) is protege. Sponsee isn't bad. Or you could
> > have mentor and mented :) (say it a few times, mented, mented, mented,
> > demented).
>
> Oh... so close and you just missed it....
>
> debmented.
>
> Usage examples:
>
> The debmentor leads the debmented.
>
> He liked Debian so much, he put in lots of time and energy, and became
> debmented.
>
> The flame wars on Debian lists are worst when they happen between the
> long standing debmented ones.
>
> He was such a good leader, we call him Dr. Debmento.
>
> Debmentos freshness! Apt-get full of life!
>
ROTFL! Better that anything I cooked up and good examples, too.
That would be a badge of geekdom to wear a label like that.
Steve
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