On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 28.03.2010, at 07:54, kirby urner wrote:
I tried introducing FOSS witch on Diversity (python.org) and
appeared to get no takers.
Hacker, pirate, wizard, geek, dictator... but not witch.
Google for haecksen.
The German word for witch is Hexe, plural Hexen. The German pronunciation
of Haeckse is almost identical to Hexe. It was created as a play on the
word Hacker which is masculine in German, the canonical femininum would be
Hackerin (i.e., 'hacktress'). But Haeckse is much more playful and
creative so this is how some women in the CCC started to call themselves.
Also it sounds decidedly unixy, some old-school hackers still insist the
plural of unix is unixen and the boxes running them are boxen.
Since witch nowadays has a generally positive connotation (not the least
because of J.K.Rowling's and other's books) it at least elicits a giggle when
telling girls about this. In Germany anyway.
- Bert -
Very cool Bert, and also encouraging.
Thx! I'll share with other members of the coven. :)
Kirby
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