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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:30:14 -0400
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AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> writes:

> On 29 Okt., 13:21, Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
> <yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> On 28 oct, 20:12, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>>
>> > "Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote in messagenews:b6d32b60-333f-495d-> By jove, I think he's got it! :-)
>>
>> What does mean “ By Jove ” ? (I'm not native English, sorry).
>
> By Jupiter
>
> Latin Jupiter Nom., Jovis Gen., Jovi Dat. ...

It's just an exclamation, like "wow" or "by God". Some people find "by
God" offensive because their religion says it is a form of swearing,
so they use "Jove" instead; Jove is a Roman god, so for modern
Christians, "By Jove" is a less severe form of swearing than "by God".

Always interesting, the places comp.lang.ada gets to :).

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-- Stephe