Re: The Poll ends! (Was: Are we too serious these days?)

[Riccardo Mottola]

on 11/5/03 11:00 PM, Chris B. Vetter at chrisv@web4inc.com wrote:

> No.
> The Latin 'hora' means "hour".
> 
> The Latin "ora" (with an accented long o) means "border", "brim" or
> "edge" and can be used as a synonym for "region" or "country".

yep, sorry, there was some confusion here.

The second significate of "ora" is the imperative of the verb orare (=to
pray).
Giving GNUstep a name with the meaning "Pray!" is not distant from giving it
the name borka.

It is in italian in which "ora" has both the meaning of "hour" and of "now"

-Ric