How to start Disk Utility from command line
Gene Heskett
gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Oct 16 15:20:37 UTC 2012
On Tuesday 16 October 2012 11:17:11 Patrick Asselman did opine:
> On 2012-10-16 16:33, Joseph W Joshua wrote:
> > Totally agree. It took me quite a while to get it.
>
> Yes, an intriguing word. It even made me google it.
>
> Apparently it has a deeper meaning:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest
>
> A palimpsest (/ثˆpأ¦lةھmpsة›st/) is a manuscript page from a scroll or
> book from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used
> again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin palimpsؤ“stus from
> Ancient Greek د€خ±خ»خ¯خ¼دˆخ·دƒد„خ؟د‚ (palأmpsestos, “scratched or
> scraped againâ€) originally compounded from د€خ¬خ»خ¹خ½ (palin,
> “againâ€) and دˆخ¬د‰ (psao, “I scrapeâ€) literally meaning
> “scraped clean and used againâ€. Romans wrote on wax-coated tablets
> that could be smoothed and reused, and a passing use of the term
> "palimpsest" by Cicero seems to refer to this practice.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Patrick Asselman
Silly, but serious question Patrick. What font do I tell kmail to use in
order to properly display the above swahili as something this old Iowa farm
boy can read and understand?
Cheers, Gene
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