Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based Solid State Drives

[Liam Proven]

On 8 March 2011 08:22, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 09:07 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:32:52 +0800
>>> Christopher Chan<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:05 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 07:56:24 -0600
>>>>> "Cybe R. Wizard"<cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net>   wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> AARRGGHH!
>>>>>
>>>>>> no chance of recovery in this live
>>>>>
>>>>> ...life.  not live, liFe.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>>>>
>>>> It's okay, we know native English speaking countries have major
>>>> problems WRITING which is why they need spelling and grammar checkers
>>>> in their word processors. :p
>>>>
>>> I readily admit to regularly and unknowingly mangling that tongue to
>>> which I was naturally born.  It's a feature, not a bug!
>>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>>
>> Blame the French. They roll their words together and it rubs off!
>>
>
> Technically, didn't English supposedly mutate from German and Celtic?
> I remember reading that from somewhere.  I know that the old "English"
> that was spoken in Britain before there was an British Empire had a
> lot more in common with German.

Modern English is a bastard, descended from Middle English and Old
English but mixed up with strong influences (in reverse chronological
order) from Norman French, Saxon (an ancestor of low German and
Dutch), old Norse (from the Vikings and also a strong influence on
Norman French and Saxon, just to muddy the waters further), Latin
(from the Romans) and old Cumbric, Scots and other Celtic languages.

The family tree has a lot of loops in it. :¬)

But yeah, Old English was somewhat like Old Low German. One of
English's closest living relatives, or rather, relatives of English's
ancestor, is Frisian, spoken in the Netherlands/northern
Germany/southern Denmark border region.

Before Old English, there was Anglic, which is long long gone, poorly
attested and probably was more like the then-ancestor of modern Welsh.
What we speak today is not a language descended from the ancient
Britons, it's a mixture of the languages of the Vikings, Saxons and
Normans who invaded them, evicted them and pushed them out into Wales,
Cornwall and to a degree Scotland.

(BTW, if there are any proper linguists about, that is all
off-the-cuff, unresearched and thus apocryphal or at least wildly
inaccurate.)

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