Re: li! (Was: Re: Naming mp3 players and Yakuza was Re:

John writes:

>No, of course not.  He didn't choose the name, though; he wanted to call
>it Freax ("free" + "freak" + "Unix"), but the administrator of the FTP
>site where Linux was first released from thought "Linux" a better name.
>Most Americans, at least, make the latter ['lInUks] although ['linUks]
>is certainly acceptable.  People who say ['lainVks] are beyond the pale.
Egads, am I beyond the pale? At least on the pre-vocal level, I read
it to myself as if it were the Charles Schultz character with a binky
[lainVks]. If I actually had to *say* it, I'd probably opt for
[linUks]. All of this would assume I had the vaguest idea as to what
I was talking about (well, it's something computery).

>If you understand,                      John Cowan
>    things are just as they are;         http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
>if you do not understand,               http://www.reutershealth.com
>    things are just as they are.         jcowan@reutershealth.com
So are we to understand that if the HTML is whacked, we would read:

"If you understand John Cowan, things are just as they are;"?

Kou

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