uberpackager rename (was Re: The Big ACL Opening)

Tue Oct 21 11:58:07 UTC 2008

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0700, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> *For the curious, the true meaning of "gift" is "poison".

This seems unlikely. It's more probable that it's just a very old false
cognate, or perhaps that the German word is the one that drifted in meaning.

(Oops. I wasn't going to touch this thread.)

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences