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Article #21170Re: Filesystem vs file system
From: Lupe Christoph
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 17:30
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 17:30
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com...@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. John T Jensen) writes: >lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes: >>Charli...@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs) writes: >>Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaen. This is the standard >>"longest word ever used" in German. I don't believe it was really >>used, but who knows? It's old, and it's from Austria... >>You want to know what it *means*? "Captain at the Danube Steam >>Boat Corporation". >>-- >Should that be 'Captain at the Danube Steam Boat Transportation Corporation'? > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Doesn't -fahrts- mean 'travel' or 'transportation' or something like that? You're right. That's the trouble with long words, you easily overlook something :-) -- | ...!unido!ukw!lupe (German EUNet, "bang") | Disclaimer: | | lupe@ukw.UUCP (German EUNet, domain) | As I am self-employed, | | suninfo!alanya!lupe (Sun Germany) | this *is* the opinion | | Res non sunt complicanda praeter necessitatem. | of my employer. |
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!news2me.ebay.sun.com!seven-up.East.Sun.COM!sungy!stasys!alanya!lupe From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Filesystem vs file system Message-ID: <1992Apr27.173021.10441@ukw.uucp> Date: 27 Apr 92 17:30:21 GMT References: <11633@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Apr25.071009.1003@ukw.uucp> <1992Apr26.211155.1615@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> Sender: uu...@stasys.sta.sub.org () Organization: cic Lines: 24 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit