uberpackager rename (was Re: The Big ACL Opening)

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Oct 21 14:27:31 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:26:32PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius 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".

Yeah, you're talking to a guy with a t-shirt that says "übergeek".

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




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