From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" Subject: Re: Offtopic [Re: Can't use gitk.] Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 20:28:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30811021128q5f172a97pbc8e657d08f9ac8c@mail.gmail.com> References: <437870AF.8060607@op5.se> <43787831.3030404@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Franck , "Andreas Ericsson" , "Git Mailing List" To: "Linus Torvalds" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 02 20:30:04 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KwieB-0004xL-8K for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:30:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753059AbYKBT2u convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:28:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753128AbYKBT2t (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:28:49 -0500 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:42229 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753019AbYKBT2s convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:28:48 -0500 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so2155607wfd.4 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:28:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=2KzIEof1yf9rtlcdcZ6kTo318ApVQUCUITmZcvbs6TY=; b=puDHuMhQOAVgfYSYDvLA2pJGRQIFYyviEYZaio0USTPlrcbbabk+dfGt4ygD/JceCh Kdz67MVi5ZgTEMZHbAtoSzPSHdeiH8OGP+UyE8K8voyGgOoViEaGRep/ZvqF6nCHJgeB T0Ii5hlPZIDHEXcqJWQRoItTeaLadgpa6KcCU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ggZYl1zjnpLUYWFvfJavODzjFN2wh0AzGGMvFGlnv7n1vbf+k402vsFzi010GyYHQ7 Ezq2yMjTrY4VeHSAEn8AEzxJfoRMgJ2U4yXnE3Q894hnjgOMZLD7RVr7XMgQf2WBFSuW lLN1ySyH5aGvj8Z/dcj2myv8A1ktvwBNRqjeU= Received: by 10.142.230.9 with SMTP id c9mr6708839wfh.343.1225654128186; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:28:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.240.8 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 11:28:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 7:24 PM, Linus Torvalds wro= te: > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Franck wrote: Sorry for commenting on this email only now but I found it in my archive while looking for a different thread :-) >> oops, sorry Andreas for that ! I use to spelling this name without '= s' >> that's why I did the mistake I think. > > In Finland and Sweden Andrea without the "s" is a girls name, while > Andreas with the "s" (or Andr=E9 without "-as") is a boy. > > It's not even very rare. "Andrea" was the 84th most popular female na= me in > Sweden in 2000. > > It can be confusing, since in Italy (and, I think, southern Germany a= nd > much of Eastern Europe), "Andrea" is a boy, and in fact, the name > originally comes from the Greek meaning "man". In Italy Andrea might be a girl as well even if that name is often used for a boy. Ciao, --=20 Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/