Re: Folk etymology, was Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 June 2018 19:24:14 Jim Lee wrote: > On 06/18/2018 04:09 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > > Peter Otten wrote: > >> "folk etymology" would be the retrofitting of the exotic "Schottky" > >> into two familiar words "shot" and "key". Sometimes the writer > >> assumes that these words are someho

Re: Folk etymology, was Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-18 Thread Jim Lee
On 06/18/2018 04:09 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: Peter Otten wrote: "folk etymology" would be the retrofitting of the exotic "Schottky" into two familiar words "shot" and "key". Sometimes the writer assumes that these words are somehow related to the labeled object. Well, there is a thing call

Re: Folk etymology, was Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-18 Thread Gregory Ewing
Peter Otten wrote: "folk etymology" would be the retrofitting of the exotic "Schottky" into two familiar words "shot" and "key". Sometimes the writer assumes that these words are somehow related to the labeled object. Well, there is a thing called "shot noise", and you can probaby get it from

Re: Folk etymology, was Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2018-06-18, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >>> Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: >>> Gene Heskett wrote: > This biggest single thing wrong with any of those old scsi interfaces > is the bus's 5 volt isolation diode,

Folk etymology, was Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-18 Thread Peter Otten
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-06-18, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: >> >>> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> This biggest single thing wrong with any of those old scsi interfaces is the bus's 5 volt isolation diode, the designer speced a shotkey(sp) diode, and