On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Ely Levy wrote: > why bother? Because it's the open source way of doing things.
> They are making their own langauge, Not true. There are many words we all use that originated with the Academy. > no one follows them beside maybe IDF. > why should we waste time arguing with them? > > > Ely Levy > System group > Hebrew University > Jerusalem Israel > > > > On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Uri Bruck wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > > > > > as for Cookie - the Academy claimes they went to the original > > > definition, when cookie actually came from the cookoo bird which lays > > > eggs in foreign nests. > > I saw that explanation and went looking for a source for that. There's an > > article on Netscape's site that said they used it first in web context, > > and there was no special reason for the name. Neither a cookie, the kind > -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
