Messages in this thread | | | Date | 17 Mar 2002 16:38:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile |
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torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 16.03.02 in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161342190.24457-100000@home.transmeta.com>:
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > > In short, youaere > > > > Don't use umlauts unless you are ready to back it up. > > That's not an umlaut, that's an "ae", which is a real letter in Finnish and > Swedish (it just _looks_ like an a with an umlaut to you uncultured > people), and it happens to be a letter that is just left of the ' mark on > a Finnish keyboard.
Hey, careful there! Those English speakers stole that name from German, and in German those umlauts are real letters, too. Incidentally, my ae is next to the '# key ...
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