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Posted May 23, 2003 13:12 UTC (Fri) by ctg (subscriber, #3459)
In reply to: warspeak by fpahl
Parent article: The Open Group on UNIX trademark

There is a nice word in English called "Zeitgeist" ;-). Unfortunately the "spirit of the age" gets into everything. The best thing to do is just ignore the colourful language....


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Posted May 23, 2003 13:27 UTC (Fri) by rstreeks (subscriber, #1018) [Link]

"Zeitgeist" borrowed word from the German language. It's not even English.

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Posted May 23, 2003 13:32 UTC (Fri) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]

That's the great thing about English. Its vocabulary is bascally a superset of a all other languages. :)

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