Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 04:55, Bijan Soleymani a déclamé : > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:01:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > What is the gender of Unix? > Also masculine I believe.
Yep. > I think Debian is feminine though. > Un Unix proprietaire. > Une Debian Sid. > La Debian, la distribution la plus libre. Right. I've always said "une Debian" (feminine), like "une Redhat", "une Suse", "une Mandrake", because it is supposed to be a distribution (feminine). > I think people might pronounce Debian as though it was written as > Debiane though. ...as written as Déb-iane to be correct (with the last e not pronounced, like most French words) ; this pronunciation comes from English and does not match fully with regular French rules. -- Christophe Courtois - Ostwald, Alsace, France http://www.courtois.cc/ - Clé PGP : 0F33E837 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux and BSD have combined to form LSD. That will bring totally new meaning to downloading patches. -- EvilTwinSkippy, Slashdot, 07/06/03 3:03 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
