Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!dkuug!freja!skinfaxe!seindal From: seindal@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Rene' Seindal) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: A Hum Domain Keywords: Objectivism, philosophy, sci.* Message-ID: <1990Feb14.105345.13632@diku.dk> Date: 14 Feb 90 10:53:45 GMT References: <3284@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <3285@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <9442@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <7346@tank.uchicago.edu> <1990Feb1.005817.1786@everexn.uucp> <7402@tank.uchicago.edu> <1990Feb5.003806.13410@everexn.uucp> <1990Feb6.072511.21727@agate.berk Sender: news@diku.dk (The Netnews System) Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen Lines: 14 karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino) writes: > I agree, though, that the abbreviation "hum" is darned unfortunate. > (Makes me think of the Giants--"Humm, baby!") But I can't think of > another name that is synonymous. Someone suggested "huma," which > still seems pretty awful to me but may be better than hum. At > least you'd get that long "u" sound in there. I was hoping that > someone would come up with the perfect synonym for humanities, > though. "Arts" doesn't seem like it to me. How about "human". Isn't is supposed to be about people and what they do and think? Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.dk)