[Mageia-discuss] origin of the name "mageia"?

Remy CLOUARD shikamaru at mandriva.org
Thu Sep 23 14:26:00 CEST 2010


On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:55:34PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> 2010/9/21 Cassian Braconnnier <ptyxs at free.fr>:
> > You should say "the right modern greek pronunciation" is Ma-yeé-a, in
> > ancient greek (whose pronunciation is presumably most world-wide known...)
> > the pronunciation is assuredly ma-geï-a.
> 
> That's what they told me in school when we talked about Homer and
> Plato and Sokrates and all the other guys with beards who used to live
> in barrels. :)
Hey, I thought only Diogene used to do that :D

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope

:)
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