On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 02:22:58PM -0300, hellekin wrote: > On 02/02/2015 12:37 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:22:45 -0500 > > Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > > > >>> Only remains to prove the talibans of systemd that resistance is not > >>> futile... > > > >> Is not ISIL a better analogy? > > > > Grovelling apologies, but I have difficulties distinguishing shades in that > > region of the spectrum... > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ron. > > > > Let me help you. After all, I'm a free software talib. (see my twitter) > > Talib: singular, a student. > Taliban: plural, more than one talib. > > Using Talib or Taliban as a derogatory term is Newspeak straight from > the War Propaganda 101 operative manual. Instead of considering a > human, you consider an enemy. The enemy is the devil. The enemy has a > face, but not necessarily a name (that would make it too close to you.)
And this is how hapless words change their meaning when they migrate to new languages. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
