Xeptember ...

[Michael]

[Michael]

[caraman1]

PLEASE make it early Xeptember and not late Xeptember. We're all very Xcited and we really don't want to wait until Xmas

Dennis [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

<a href=http://www.inconnect.com/~dennisco/>Carillus Design</a>

[gwpriester]

If I remember the old Stan Freeberg parody of the 7 Dayd of Christmas, he talks about putting the X back in Xmas.

Whereas they are many who might take offence at this, I doubt if they would in this conference ;-)

Gary

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

Be It Every So Humble...

[davezub]

I would only take offense if XMAS was a "slipped" released date <grin>.

Dave Zubrowski

[Mike]

I bet ya.

PS
Always be pessimistic, so when it turns out OK you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
If your optimistic, your always disappointed.

[Michael]

Not only will it be XMas, but X will be crashprone and with a clunky GUI. I bet they retro-ed to W3.x

[kevinnewby]

Gary, and others ...

actually the practice of writing Xmas goes back
quite a ways by a couple of hundred years, though
it is commonly thought that it is a recent invention, (in
an attempt to jetison the word Christ out of Christmas,
or for insults sake).

It was employed as a totally acceptable and respectfully
appropriate shorthand, since X is the first greek letter
in the word Christ (I can't show you the greek letters
here but the transliteration of Christ from the Greek
Christos would look roughly like "Xpristos"). So the
X was commonly used to respresent the word Christ,
going back hundreds of years now. You may have seen
the very popular Roman Catholic usage XP (the "Chi Rho")
which is the first TWO letters of Christ (chi=X="ch", rho=P="r")

So now that I've totally confused you with this trivia, the
bottom line is X=Christ historically, but certainly not
recently... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

just thought you might be interested...

Kevin [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[athena]

Hello Kevin,

That was great to read! I love this forum precisely for this diversity of information.

Classics, Antiquity, Etymology (the study of the origin of words) --- all just great stuff.

Sometimes the etymology is one of the best reasons to read a dictionary. (You may know what I mean -- you start to look up one word and read definitions for about 5 or ten other words just because they are fascinating and they caught your eye. I wonder how soon will they forget the pleasure of reading the dictionary. Digital books are just alot harder to thumb through or randomly open to a great passage or piece of poetry)

Thanks again for the background information.

Athena
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[Sean Sedwards]

You can insert Greek characters that everyone can view by using the Symbol font that comes with Windows. It doesn't have stress accents, but at least it's Greek. Hence:

<font face="Symbol" >cara</font> ... looks like 'Xara' but is pronounced (c)hara and means 'joy'.
<font face="Symbol" >zara</font> ... pronounced zara but means 'wrinkle'.

<font face="Symbol" >geia saV</font> - Sean