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Re: [SLE] It's SuSE not SUSE
- From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:38:57 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <dleun4$btc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
Well said!
/Per Jessen, Zürich
> 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.
Well said!
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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