On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:15:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 10:40:17PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > because we have native tools to manage authentification (setauth, rmauth, > > Is there a reason people use the imaginary word "authentification" rather > than the real word "authentication"? > > Just curious; I encounter it even in documentation that really should know > better. /me guesses: In Spanish (and surely in many other latin languages), authentication is "Autentificación", so the rude translation is authentification ;) Jordi -- ____________________________________________________ / Rediscovering Freedom, Using Debian GNU/Linux \ / \ | Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es | | Oskuro in RL-MUD || jordi@sindominio.net | | http://sindominio.net | \ telnet pusa.informat.uv.es 23 / \____________________________________________________/
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