From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:27:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:27:01 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:32745 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:25:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:02:40 +0200 From: Ville Herva To: James Lewis Nance Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Re: make mrproper Message-ID: <20010125180240.A1002@niksula.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu> <20010124173302.A8027@marvin> <20010125090026.B918@bessie.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010125090026.B918@bessie.dyndns.org>; from jlnance@intrex.net on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:00:26AM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:00:26AM -0500, you [James Lewis Nance] claimed: > > ( mrproper == Mr. Proper ) > > I saw a post from Linus once about this. It is Finnish for "Mr. Clean". Just to be sure: 'proper' does not mean anything in Finnish (nor Swedish for that matter AFAIK) it just the European(?) product name for 'Mr Clean'. Possibly it's from German ('proper' = 'clean'). -- v -- v@iki.fi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/