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From: mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's ST mean?
Message-ID: <1188@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Date: 9 Oct 89 21:30:21 GMT
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Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <4611@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>In article <1111@nigel.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
>>As for 'amiga', I believe it is Spanish for 'friend' and more specifically
>>it is a 'female friend'.  'Amigo' is a 'male friend'.
>    Well, yes, you're right about the spanish... but I think in this case the
>word 'amiga' is probably italian, since Amiga was an italian company (I think).
>I'm pretty sure the word exists in both languages, since they're fairly similar
>to each other.

The story I heard about the name of our favorite computer is that is was
originally intended to be "Amica", which is Latin for "friend".  But, someone
already was using that name, so they changed the "c" to a "g", and the rest
is history.  Now, I am not an expert on Latin, and I don't know if they treat
the final "a" as a feminine case modifier, as is done is Spanish.  But, from
a marketing point of view, I believe that words that end in "a" are supposed
to appeal to different market sectors than words that end in "o" or other
letters.  Any other comments or supporting info?
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