On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:22:17AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > On 20000915T060004-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > > > Sponsee? Tony made that one up didn't he? I can see the > > > confusion in a couple years when the number of Debian maintainers > > > hits a few million. "What's that language you're speaking? > > > Debian you say?" :-)
item: What's that language? Debian? > > Tony who? > > > > You ever heard of deriving words? The thing that allows you to make > > up a word using established derivation mechanisms when no existing word > > is suitable? item: derivation mechanism > > I appear to be the Tony in question. I'm very likely also responsible for > coining the word "sponsee" (although I can't really take credit - my > company uses "mentee" as the counterpart to "mentor" - since no one seems > to be able to spell "protege" correctly on a consistent basis.) item: mentee and sponsee (below) > > I have to confess that I need to go back and try to follow this thread > from the start (/me runs off to find a threaded mail reader), but if the > issue is the use of Debianspeak, then what do folks think of the word > protege? [snipped protege def'n] > > I guess that we're talking about a career in Debian, although I'm not sure > how much "support and protection" I provide to my > victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsponsees. (On the other hand, maybe we really *need* > a new word for "the person whom a sponsor sponsors" since I'm not sure item: need a new word Taking these items together, how about making up a really ew word that is really Debianspeak? You could have debee and deber :-) OTOH, the best _word_ I've seen so far (that is, one that can be found in an (English) dictionary) is protege. Sponsee isn't bad. Or you could have mentor and mented :) (say it a few times, mented, mented, mented, demented). Any foreign words (to us English speakers) that capture this concept? > that such a relationship existed up until now.) > > Cheers, > tony > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Time after time we lose sight of the way. > http://www.debian.org | Our causes can't see their effects. > | (Neil Peart) (Also a Rush fan. Hi Tony! Are you still in the area?) -- Steve Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (preferred) Buckeye, AZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.goodnet.com/~sbowman/> Powered by Debian GNU/Linux <http://www.debian.org>
