Re: RELEASED: allout-vim 031229

From: Christos (tzot_at_sil-tec.gr)
Date: 01/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:50:28 +0200

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:25:45 -0500, rumours say that François Pinard
<pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> might have written:

>I sometimes use French words that just happen to be English words
>as well, once done the obvious morphological changes! The word
>"synoptique" has been part of my early youth: even in elementary school,
>teachers were bringing us into writing "plans synoptiques" to summarise
>our learning.

[and Samuel]
>> I tried googling for the term and some variations, and only turned
>> up religious sites. I wasn't familiar with the format or the
>> terminology. Looking up synoptic in the dictionary didn't shed much
>> light on the situation.

Trivia of the day:

Usually, words common in two languages are derived from other, older
languages --like Latin, or in this case, Greek. And most Unix users
will be familiar with the composite noun "synopsis" (hint: man pages),
parsed as "syn" (I believe "con" as prefix in Latin) and "opsis"
("view"), which means "that which can be viewed at a glance".
"Etymology", that's another nice word :) 

-- 
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best,
Ils sont fous ces Redmontains! --Harddix

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