Koel (and Hobson-Jobson)

Lars Martin Fosse lmfosse at ONLINE.NO
Wed May 6 21:47:08 UTC 1998


>
>LarsOvAca:
>>May I suggest WOWW!
>>
>>Lars Martin Fosse

Krishna uvAca:

>
>My suggestion for pronouncing WWW:
>since most Indians pronounce W as "Da-bul-you", why don't we just make
>it "Dabbulu Dabbulu Dabbulu", a very meaningful construct since
>"Dabbulu" means money(Yeah! Money!) in Telugu....

Hmm. I am not entirely certain that money is the thing that strikes me
particularly characteristic about the Internet and WWW. Judging by some of
the debates on Indology, maybe a single Woww isn't enough. Maybe we should
simply call it Wow-Wow-Wow!

Doggedly, yours

Lars Martin Fosse


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