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Subject: Re: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway - msg#00110List: os.hurd.general> In Dutch (incl. Flemish), we have "een horde" which is a group of > wild animals or a large gang of looting soldiers or 'barbarians' (as > in "horden Hunnen trokken plunderend door Europa"). Actually, the > English translation I found in a pocket dictionary is also "horde" > so I'm not sure anymore if it is related. Yeah, "horde" is an ordinary English word, with a clearly close meaning to the Dutch word there, and a totally different etymology from English "hird". > So, please enlighten me, what was originally meant in naming the Hurd? Like I said, the idea was to have a name which sounded the same as "herd", but with a different spelling. In the normal rules of English orthography, "hurd", "hird", and "herd" are all pronounced the same. Thread at a glance:
Previous Message by Date: click to view message previewRe: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from NorwayThl Obeznaa <fcnqrenqn@xxxxxxxxxx> jevgrf: > Va Qhgpu (vapy. Syrzvfu), jr unir "rra ubeqr" juvpu vf n tebhc bs > jvyq navznyf be n ynetr tnat bs ybbgvat fbyqvref be 'oneonevnaf' (nf > va "ubeqra Uhaara gebxxra cyhaqreraq qbbe Rhebcn"). Npghnyyl, gur > Ratyvfu genafyngvba V sbhaq va n cbpxrg qvpgvbanel vf nyfb "ubeqr" > fb V'z abg fher nalzber vs vg vf eryngrq. Lrnu, "ubeqr" vf na beqvanel Ratyvfu jbeq, jvgu n pyrneyl pybfr zrnavat gb gur Qhgpu jbeq gurer, naq n gbgnyyl qvssrerag rglzbybtl sebz Ratyvfu "uveq". > Fb, cyrnfr rayvtugra zr, jung jnf bevtvanyyl zrnag va anzvat gur Uheq? Yvxr V fnvq, gur vqrn jnf gb unir n anzr juvpu fbhaqrq gur fnzr nf "ureq", ohg jvgu n qvssrerag fcryyvat. Va gur abezny ehyrf bs Ratyvfu begubtencul, "uheq", "uveq", naq "ureq" ner nyy cebabhaprq gur fnzr. Next Message by Date: click to view message previewRe: Some X libraries have dropped off the radarIn message <20021015090045.GB4856@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach_l@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:06:01PM +0100, Matthew Hambley wrote: > > I've got a bit of a problem with the updates recently made to the X > > system in Debian GNU/HURD. I can not install xfonts-scalable as the > > installation process can't find libXft.so.1. This I find surprising > > given that it is > Perhaps you would like to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before you run > dpkg/apt/dselect or make a symlink that makes the lib visible to the > liker? I discovered the LD_LIBRARY_PATH solution after posting the request for help. I was confused by the fact that I had set up /etc/ld.so.conf as I would for a Linux system but it was having no effect. Since it appears not to be used would it make sense to remove it from the distribution? > Hope that helps Yes, thanks. -- (\/)atthew )-(ambley ---------------\ If something's worth doing it's worth E-mail : matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \ doing badly until you can learn to Public key : C487AC52 \ do it well. Web : http://www.aether.demon.co.uk/ \----------------------------------- Previous Message by Thread: click to view message previewRe: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from NorwayThl Obeznaa <fcnqrenqn@xxxxxxxxxx> jevgrf: > Va Qhgpu (vapy. Syrzvfu), jr unir "rra ubeqr" juvpu vf n tebhc bs > jvyq navznyf be n ynetr tnat bs ybbgvat fbyqvref be 'oneonevnaf' (nf > va "ubeqra Uhaara gebxxra cyhaqreraq qbbe Rhebcn"). Npghnyyl, gur > Ratyvfu genafyngvba V sbhaq va n cbpxrg qvpgvbanel vf nyfb "ubeqr" > fb V'z abg fher nalzber vs vg vf eryngrq. Lrnu, "ubeqr" vf na beqvanel Ratyvfu jbeq, jvgu n pyrneyl pybfr zrnavat gb gur Qhgpu jbeq gurer, naq n gbgnyyl qvssrerag rglzbybtl sebz Ratyvfu "uveq". > Fb, cyrnfr rayvtugra zr, jung jnf bevtvanyyl zrnag va anzvat gur Uheq? Yvxr V fnvq, gur vqrn jnf gb unir n anzr juvpu fbhaqrq gur fnzr nf "ureq", ohg jvgu n qvssrerag fcryyvat. Va gur abezny ehyrf bs Ratyvfu begubtencul, "uheq", "uveq", naq "ureq" ner nyy cebabhaprq gur fnzr. Next Message by Thread: click to view message previewRe: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norwaynisse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Niels Möller) writes: > My popular ethymological handbook (Våra Ord, Norstedts) says that > "hird" means body guard. It comes from old English "hir[e]d", via > Icelandic literature and old Swedish "hirþ", where it meant body guard > or other court folks. Also the same word as German "Heirat", wedding. Sounds more like the German word "Hirte", which means ... herdsman. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 Loading Comments...
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