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Re: greek pun?

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Thursday, December 9, 1999, 12:20
> Ed Heil > > > >> > mikre he sophia he tou Mikrosophou > > Nope. "Small (mikre) is the wisdom (sophia) of Microsoft > (microsophos)."
Excuse my dimness, but I don't get the joke, unless it is overlaboured (like saying "great is the cruft of Macrocruft" in English) or unless -- can it be true? -- Microsoft really does call itself Smallwit in Greek, in which case the joke is surely so obvious that noone could be arsed making it. Yours, slow on the uptake --And.