Re: naming schemes (was Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released)
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 04:28, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:58:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 17:24, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > You're only partly right on the first count, and I'd say still wrong on
> > > the second. :) The word "Greece" existed in various forms in Old English
> > > and other earlier Germanic languages, so considerably predates your
> > > Founding Fathers; if you want its modern form, I'm pretty sure
> > > Shakespeare used the word, and he lived quite a long time before anyone
> > > even called New York New Amsterdam, let alone New York.
> >
> > How did the Founding Fathers get pulled into the discussion?
>
> Last time I checked, they were a handy lower bound for the founding of
> most towns in the US ...
Do you think of our Founding Fathers as being from ~1608 or ~1776?
(Is anyone considered to have "founded" England as it is known now
(Magna Carta? William the Conqueror? the 1st post-Saxon king), or is
that just not part of the English tradition?
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