Mailing List Archive: Historical Curiosity

Historical Curiosity

Jun 29, 2022, 10:43 AM

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Hi all,

I had forgotten about Perl's splain program until Phillipe Bruhat (BooK)
reminded me about it.

Typing "man splain" is kind of hilarious. I'm not asking for any change,
but do we know if that was intentional?

Curtis "Ovid" Poe
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Re: Historical Curiosity [ In reply to ]

me at xenu

Jun 29, 2022, 10:48 AM

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:43:56 +0200
Ovid <curtis.poe@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I had forgotten about Perl's splain program until Phillipe Bruhat (BooK)
> reminded me about it.
>
> Typing "man splain" is kind of hilarious. I'm not asking for any change,
> but do we know if that was intentional?
>
> Curtis "Ovid" Poe

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/splain-splaining-meaning

Re: Historical Curiosity [ In reply to ]

jkeenan at pobox

Jun 29, 2022, 11:30 AM

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On 6/29/22 13:48, Tomasz Konojacki wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:43:56 +0200
> Ovid <curtis.poe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had forgotten about Perl's splain program until Phillipe Bruhat (BooK)
>> reminded me about it.
>>
>> Typing "man splain" is kind of hilarious. I'm not asking for any change,
>> but do we know if that was intentional?
>>
>> Curtis "Ovid" Poe
>
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/splain-splaining-meaning

Nice! So it's not *just* Desi Arnaz.

Re: Historical Curiosity [ In reply to ]

rabbiveesh at gmail

Jun 29, 2022, 12:05 PM

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It looks like "mansplain" has only existed since 2008 (acc to wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining#:~:text=The%20term%20mansplaining%20was%20inspired,com%20on%2013%20April%202008.>),
and 'splain' seems to be dated to 1995.

Perl is prophetic, huh

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 9:30 PM James E Keenan <jkeenan@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 6/29/22 13:48, Tomasz Konojacki wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:43:56 +0200
> > Ovid <curtis.poe@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I had forgotten about Perl's splain program until Phillipe Bruhat (BooK)
> >> reminded me about it.
> >>
> >> Typing "man splain" is kind of hilarious. I'm not asking for any change,
> >> but do we know if that was intentional?
> >>
> >> Curtis "Ovid" Poe
> >
> > https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/splain-splaining-meaning
>
> Nice! So it's not *just* Desi Arnaz.
>