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- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: Mixing Greek/Latin in product naming (was: Re:<None>)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.205602.10896@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
- References: <1992Nov9.184247.2626@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:56:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.184247.2626@lsl.co.uk> snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
- > In article <1cok6sINN25m@iraul1.ira.uka.de>, S_JUFFA@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S|
- Norbert Juffa) writes:
- > > or automobile (auto being Greek, mobil- being Latin, in pure Latin it would
- be
- > > a ipsemobile or some such)? I am sure there are more good exaxples, but I
- know
- > > too little Greek/Latin to come up with them right away.
- >
- > In England, I think we'd call it a motor car. Which two languages is that
- > descended from? :-)
-
- It's both latin (no :-). Motor is derived from "movere" (to move), car
- stems from latin "carrus", which is originally Celtic meaning "vehicle".
-
- But where does "computer architecture" come from ;-)
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)
-
- Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
- given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
- See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
- 80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.
-