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Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing
Issue 146, page 4 BackIssues From Richard Steinberg/Mr. Smarty Pants (The Austin Chronicle): Professor Corbato I write a trivia column for a newspaper called The Austin Chronicle.
Most of its vocabulary is also Bantu, but it borrows many words from Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, German, and English, reflecting the region's trading and colonial history. According to the Oxford "Standard Swahili-English Dictionary," pilipili is derived from a Persian word that I transliterate (with some difficulty, because I don't know the alphabet, and initial, medial, and final forms of letters are different) as plpl(vowels are not shown). Plpl immediately reminded me of Hebrew pilpul, a form of Talmudic disputation that involves close examination of minute distinctions.
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