From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8c4452e384319b30 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standartized Date: 1999/12/21 Message-ID: <3860313B.C8DB4FD1@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 563639821 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 22 Dec 1999 02:01:53 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-22T02:01:53+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote: > I suppose if Inferno becomes popular enough we'll see GNAT targetted to > Dis. Since "Dis" is related to calling something "bogus" in American, the > latter author has a claim to rightness by this interesting logic ;-) > I had always understood "dis" to be shorthand for "disrespect" - or the way one pronounces "this" if one is from Chicago. OTOH, "bogus" would be "phony", "fake" (as in "bogus money") - but maybe in the late 60s it may have been equivalent to "rotten", "uncool", as in: "like, this scene is totally bogus, man..." Is there some usage here with which I'm not familiar? :-) Maybe I need to go back and reread Dante...... (The things one has to do to keep up with Ada technology these days is pretty amazing! :-) MDC -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - 1.800.555.3393 1015-116 Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 http://www.quadruscorp.com/ m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin." -- Allan Meltzer, Economist =============================================================