Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 07:45 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > Yes, but I really meant the fact that typing SuSE required just a bit of
> > extra effort to get it right.  And there is a reason behind having the
> > lower-case 'u'.  It is, IMO, an insult to the German language to ignore
> > that detail.  I could be wrong, but I suspect SUSE is an Americanism.  I
> > am quite proud of my 31+ decades of American ancestry, but this tendency
> > to "normalize" every nuance of a foreign culture is utterly offensive.
>
> Oh stop it. It changed before Novell was involved
>
> And I fail to see how "Software und System Entwicklung" has anything to
> do with the German language. If anything, that is the insult, not SUSE
>
> But why do we keep getting these off topic threads?

When I was setting up a database system intended to be used by all DoD 
personnell, I had the choice of entering either DOD, dod, or DoD.  I entered 
DoD, because I have respect for my own language.

Steven