Re: CHAT: Linux etc. was(Re: Zelandish (was: 2nd pers. pron. for God))

On Sep/23/2002, Tim May wrote:

> I have 80GB on one hd, and 10GB on the other.  It sounds like a lot now,
> but in 5 years you'll probably be able to fit it all on a floppy.
        I remember, a long long time ago (about 13 years, IIRC), that a
friend of mine bought a "computing beast": a 386dx 40Mhz, with 127MB
HDD. My comment when he told me: "127MB? What are you going to put
there? You will never fill it!"

        Times are a'changing, they say :-) BTW (and to save the
offtopic), that "a+<verb in gerund>" thing that I've seen many times in
english is something that I don't understand :-m Where does it come
from?

>  >         That's no problem. Choose Debian ;-)
> Motion seconded.
        World Domination! :-) Which can be turned into a translation
exercise; in Unahoban:

        "Etanna u'Ish!"  (/e'tAn:nA u:iS/)

        "Etanna" = "etan" (verb, root, "to rule") + "-na" ("action of <noun>")
        "u" = contracted form of "und", "of the"
        "Ish" = "world, land"

--
        Roberto Suarez Soto

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