uberpackager rename (was Re: The Big ACL Opening)

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Oct 21 13:26:32 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 07:58 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.

The German word "über" corresponds more or less 1:1 to the English word
"over" and in everyday live is being used where English speakers would
use "over" or "above".







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