From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: What's the status of DJGPP LIBC 2.02? (offtopic)
Date: 29 Oct 1998 10:33:18 GMT
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Arthur (arfa AT clara DOT net) wrote:
: > No, I really meant ypsilon. It's quite late in the greek alphabeth, I
: > think.

: I'm going to pick your comment to death here - no offense :-)

: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda,
: Mu, Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phy, Chi, Psy, Omega.

: Upsilon is late in the Greek Alphabet, Epsilon is early on.

It depends on your language, e. g. alfa, ..., my, ..., ypsilon, fi, ..., 
psi in Swedish. To bad English can't spell Greek...

And strange you use Upsilon and Phy instead of Ipsilon and Phi, which I, 
with a very limited knowledge of Greek pronunciation, think would be 
more accurate to the original one.

: > Offtopicum,

: Actually, "Offtopicum" would surely be a play on Latin, rather than Greek?

Yes. But one classic language and another, you know.

: Offtopicum - an area, such as a newsgroup, in which people can come together
: to relate to each other threads of conversation which are irrelevant to the
: topic at hand [hence "Off Topic"]

Right! Ha-ha!

: Enough of this nonsense. What were we talking about again..?

Perhaps what offtopicum would be in Greek?


Right,

							MartinS