KDE Programs Naming Convention

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Jan 14 04:27:02 UTC 2008


On Sunday 13 January 2008, Michael Leone wrote:
>On 1/13/08, D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com> wrote:
>> I think it's probably an urban legend though.  It's "Nova" not "no va,"
>> and they probably have the same word "nova" we do, pertaining to star
>> stuff.  Of course it's also the same word as "nueva" without the odd
>> Spanish spelling shifts too (nova -> nueva, ferrum -> hierro, facere ->
>> hacer, etc.)
>>
>> Snopes agrees:
>>
>> http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
>
>Still useful as an illustrative tool, however.
>
>> that's why Al Gore invented beer.
>
>First time I've heard that Al invented beer. :-)

There is prior art on beer making, by about 5800 years.

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