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From: mcdaniel@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Tim McDaniel)
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Subject: Re: what - an enhanced front-end for 'what'
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Date: 14 May 89 20:44:59 GMT
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In article <3805@sugar.hackercorp.com> keegan@sugar.hackercorp.com
(Cal Keegan) writes:
> echo "...a homo"

In article <15651@gryphon.COM> oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
> echo "...a cretinous homophobe"

In article <155@cat.Fulcrum.BT.CO.UK> igb@cat.UUCP (Ian G Batten)
writes:
> I suspect that's homo as in ``homo sapiens'' :-)

It's barely possible, I suppose, though I doubt it.  "Homo", in Latin,
does mean "human".  But if that was meant, why mix English with Latin?
Why not something like
        echo "...unum homo"
(or "unam" or whatever the correct ending is)?

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