Re: [avr-chat] Re: [avr-gcc-list] OT: Like to recommend any other good AVR mailing lists?

[E. Weddington]

Anton Erasmus wrote:

> On 19 Nov 2004 at 9:54, David Brown wrote:
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> > > Anton Erasmus wrote:
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> > > > On 18 Nov 2004 at 10:43, E. Weddington wrote:
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> > > > > LOL!
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> > > > > Well, I'm a little more sanguine about it. AVR Freaks, I feel, has
> > > > > it's place. There's a number of good people there. It's a good
> > > > > place if you have fast question. I've noticed that a number of
> > > > > times questions don't get answered on avr-gcc-list, or at least it
> > > > > seems cyclical. There are times that avr-gcc-list is very quiet
> > > > > and then, like recently, a huge surge in traffic. AVR Freaks is a
> > > > > good place for newbies; they learn the ropes. I agree the name is
> > > > > almost embarassing, but I didn't choose it. One other nice thing,
> > > > > is that, *finally*, there are people from Atmel who are answering
> > > > > some questions on AVR Freaks, especially in regards to their AVR
> > > > > Studio software. I think it's getting monitored more by Atmel.
> > > > >
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> > > > I believe that the term freak comes from the German usage where it
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> > carries basically
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> > > > the same meaning as fan.
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> > > Have you told that to the Norwegians who are running the site? :-)
> > >
> > > Eric
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> > As far as I know (I Scottish, but live in Norway), "freak" does not
> > correspond to any Norwegian word.  However, I can well imagine that
> > the Norwegian (students?) who started the website felt it meant
> > "people who are madly enthusiastic about AVRs".
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> That was what I meant to imply. When a native english speaker hears the word
> freak, it does not have a positive conotation. Native english speakers hence 
> might
> get the wrong impression of the quality of the content of the avr freaks site. 
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And, unfortunately, a number of them do get the wrong impression....