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- From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:11:38 GMT
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- lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
- >hobbit@ac.dal.ca writes:
-
- >>What I'm curious about, is how do you folks pronounce 'GNU'?
- >>'Nu' is proper (for the animal, anyway) but i've never heard anything
- >>but 'ge-nu' used for the software.
-
- >From the introduction to the GNU Emacs Manual, Sixth Edition, Version
- >18, March 1987, by RMS himself:
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- > You are about to read about GNU Emacs, the GNU incarnation
- > of the advanced, self-documentin, customizable, extensible
- > real-time display editor Emacs. (The `G' in `GNU' is not silent.)
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- So is it ga-new, gun-ooh, gee-new, or gee-en-you? :-)
-
- >| ...!unido!ukw!lupe (German EUNet, "bang") | Disclaimer: |
- >| lupe@ukw.UUCP (German EUNet, domain) | As I am self-employed, |
- >| suninfo!alanya!lupe (Sun Germany) | this *is* the opinion |
-
- "No gnews is good gnews with Gary Gnu."
-
- -- gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
-
- /// ____ \\\ "Sorry, did I say something wrong? Pardon me for
- | |/ / \ \| | breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't even
- \\_|\____/|_// know why I bother to say it oh God I'm so depressed.
- \_)\\/ Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors.
- `-' Life... don't talk to me about life...."
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