KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Dotan Cohen]

On 13/01/2008, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What does "Dotan" mean?
> > It is the name of a valley in northern Israel, just south of today's Afula.
> Being a name of some other place is not the same as 'meaning'. Or am I wrong?

You are right. The "do" I am not sure of (maybe "two") but the "tan"
probably refers to the animal, which is called in English hyena, and
frequents the area. So "Dotan" could be "two hyenas".

> > I would prefer that those who find that they do not know the meanings
> > of their names, or the names of their places of residence, answer
> > that.
> Oh, I wasn't asking, just observing my ignorance.

It would be interesting to know, if a bit OT for the Kubuntu list.

> > in Israel, most of the places have Hebrew,
> > Arabic, or other Semetic names, which are still partially decypherable
> > in everyday speech.
> That's another good point - English stems from a milkshake of older languages
> and we (I speak of my generation in South Africa) sure as heck did not learn
> Latin in school, and that's a huge disconnect as far as language goes. I
> think people in Europe and places that still speak "old" languages (or modern
> ones with a direct person-to-person link back in time) have an advantage as
> far as meaning/interpretation goes.

I know of at least one Latin speaker in attendance of this thread.

Dotan Cohen

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