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

[Russell Shaw]

E. Weddington wrote:
> Anton Erasmus wrote:
>
> > On 19 Nov 2004 at 9:54, David Brown wrote:
...
> > > > Anton Erasmus wrote:
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> > > > > On 18 Nov 2004 at 10:43, E. Weddington wrote:
...
> > > 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".
> > >   
> >
> > 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.
>
> And, unfortunately, a number of them do get the wrong impression....

For me, freak is nothing more than dedicated enthusiast and has
nothing negative about it.