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RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing
- From: "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" <gsw at agere dot com>
- To: <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:32:24 -0500
- Subject: RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Eric Blake wrote:
> I hope you meant breach[1], not breech[2].
Maybe he meant the back of the barrel, as in "we're
getting ready to pull the trigger".
> Your subject reminded me of one of the early English
> translations of the Bible, where the translator picked the
> wrong word in Genesis 3:7 (http://sunnyokanagan.com/breeches/).
That reminds be of the time when I translated Monopoly
into Latin for a school project. I guess it must have
been late when I looked that one up, since I ended up
calling "Community Chest" something along the lines of
"Communitas Pectas" (you got it, "Community Breast").
:-)
-gsw