A good place to look up origins of these kind of words is
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html. You will find some detailed
information on "foo" "bar" "foobar" and many others. BTW, furchtbar means
terrible.
Lee Herbst
"Asendorf,
John" To: Tek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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01/22/2003
09:25 AM
That's a very good possibility!
Now, uh, for us non-German speakers, what is "furchtbar?"
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> Heya ppl
>
> I can only refer to foobar as the German word 'furchtbar' that sounds
> quite similar when spoken, and an untrained tounge might as well say
> 'foobar'.
>
> Just an idea.
>
> greetz
>
> Jens Habegger
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