Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On Sat, 3 May 2025 22:06:57 -0400, c186282 wrote:

   A couple decades ago, the "French Everything" crusade in that country
   demanded French-only terms for stuff.
   The native French for 'satellite' was, well, like an entire sentence

German isn't shy about using loan words but they like to stick them
together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5BcAbMdF18

fwiw, John Kay was born in East Prussia which is now Kaliningrad Oblast so
mocking German comes naturally.  Russia has the same problem as Germany
did after WWI and the Danzig Corridor; the oblast not connected to the
rest of Russia.