On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:59:25PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > In ancient lore there was a bunch friendly characters who hung > around out of sight and waited for a being - human being mostly - > to need help. One of those creatures would slip in and somewhat > mysteriously do little things to help - not necessarily fix the > whole problem, but place something in the human's way that can help > them solve the problem. These merry creatures were called daemons > - pronounced day-mohn. I guess they are sort of like friendly > sprites of elves.
Actually, "daemon" is a Latinization of the Greek "daimon". Daimon is pronounced something more like "die-mahn", but (being from the Latin) daemon is prounounced "dee-mohn". Unix tradition holds that "daemon" is pronounced similarly to the Latin fashion (in practice, roughly like "dee-muhn" by English speakers). > > This has come up on this list a hundred times. Far better to educate > those who are poorly informed than to roll over to prejudice and > misinformation. I agree. Good work. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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