anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (10/14/87)
In article <1899@gryphon.CTS.COM> tsmith@gryphon.CTS.COM (Tim Smith) writes: ]| "Mir" means "peace", as in | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology ]| "the war is over; we've won". | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry ]Actually, if I remember my college Russian correctly, "mir" means ]both "peace" and "world". That makes "mir" seem a most peaceable ]word. Quite right, but the adjectival forms differ: "mirnyi" = "peaceful", as in "mirnoe ispol'zovanie" = peaceful use, but "mirovyi" = "world", as in "mirovaya voyna" = world war, which is about what we're going to have if people do not edit their Newgroups line to exclude comp.os.minix from this protracted PDP-11 stuff! PLEASE get it together!!! More than half of the last 200 articles in comp.os.minix have had next to no relevance to Minix. ==ARPA:===============anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu===Jess Anderson====== | UUCP: {harvard,seismo,rutgers, (avoid ihnp4!) 1210 W. Dayton | | akgua,allegra,usbvax}!spool!uwwircs!anderson Madison, WI 53706 | ==BITNET:======================anderson@wiscmacc===608/263-6988=======