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Tag: Language

Home › Posts tagged Language
Nonsense and nonserious, Technical

Agenda quote

blogmaster Jul 13, 2006 Tagged with IETF, Language

Inspired by a comment made at the IETF dnsop meeting: It is less efficient to swing a big clue-bat than to shoot a round of clue bullets.

General

Bonjour… Au revoir!!!

blogmaster May 3, 2005 Tagged with Apple, Language, Mac OSX, Networking, Satire

Apple renamed Rendevous to Bonjour. I do not understand marketing people. Rendevous has a much classy sound than Bonjour and covers what the protocol does. Bonjour just doesn’t work for me. What would have worked is "Ça Va". Has a …

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Glas corrosion and Wank surfing

blogmaster Mar 17, 2005 Tagged with Language, Vunzig

New words I have a thing with "new words" so my attention was cought when I was cycling past a billboard that showed the word "Glascorrosie" (Dutch for "Glascorrosion") next to a picture of a somewhat dull glass in the …

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