Ah Nebach!

On 2019-09-24 17:23, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> I could supply a rough equivalent, הזה איכפתלי, in Hebrew, but I know very 
> little Yiddish.
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> Maybe, you could supply the original expression, Chotsh?
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> On 2019-09-23 18:28, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>> ObPedant "I could care less?"
>>
>> "I could care less." is the result of translating an ironic question in 
>> Yiddish into a meaningless statement in English, probably because somebody 
>> had a tin ear and didn't pick up on the inflection indicating that it was a 
>> question.
>>
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>> Charles Mills wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting article even if you could care less about the IBM i (AS/400 for 
>>> anyone who has been living under a rock for the past 20 years).
>>
>> "couldn't care less" :)
>>
>>
>>
>> BTW, just to be irritatingly pedantic: IBM i is not really AS/400. It's what 
>> AS/400 developed into, but it refers to the current generation of the AS/400 
>> OS (formerly OS/400) running on IBM Power. From Wikipedia:
>>
>> IBM i is an operating system that runs on IBM Power Systems and IBM 
>> PureSystems. It was named OS/400 when it was introduced with the AS/400 line 
>> of computer systems in 1988, was later renamed i5/OS, and was renamed IBM i 
>> in 2008 when IBM Power Systems was introduced.
>>
>>
>>
>> So it's confusing, because "AS/400" begat "iSeries" begat "System i" begat 
>> "IBM i", only IBM i implies "on Power", whereas the others imply "on bespoke 
>> hardware". Sort of as if Apple had renamed Mac OS to macOS when they went to 
>> Intel hardware (which is not when they did that).
>>
>>
>>
>> This doesn't really matter nowadays, since anything old enough to be 
>> pre-Power is very obsolete, but it's sorta interesting. I find that 
>> customers still say "AS/400"; none of the "i" names appear to have ever 
>> really caught on.
>>
>>
>>
>> Related: It's "IBM Power", not "PowerPC". PowerPC is the very old precursor 
>> to the current generation; this is much like saying your shiny new ThinkPad 
>> has a 386-it's sorta kinda in the neighborhood, but really just wrong.
>>
>>
>>
>> Signed,
>>
>> Mr. Pedantic
>>
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