Re: [OT] Pronunciation of "metacity" (was Manage window: change positions, etc.)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-24 08:01, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:45:09 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
> >  From an old metacity README:
> >      Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but
> >      rather Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e.
> >      metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also it may have
> >      something to do with the Meta key on UNIX keyboards.
>
> I don't doubt the truth of your claim.  I mean, there it is in
> print from the upstream author.  It just surprised me.  But
> even the author hints that this may not have been the original
> pronunciation.
>
>    "Also it may have something to do with the Meta key
>    on UNIX keyboards."

Right.  It's still meta-ness (whether the state of being meta or 
from the Meta key).

> The fact that he put that blurb in there at all also indicates
> that many people were pronouncing it 

As I did for quite a while...

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