Re: Filesystem vs file system

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From: Lupe Christoph
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1992 07:10

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Charli...@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs) writes:

>     Over the past few years I've noticed that people are running
>words together more and more.  I find this silly, irritating, or
>misleading, depending on the state of my liver.  Maybe it's due to
>influence from the German language, where it is standard to string
>words together to produce some truly incredible compound words.

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".
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Subject: Re: Filesystem vs file system
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