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Re: tiefer

From: "James J. Lippard" <Lippard@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 85 12:20 MST
Subject: Re: tiefer
Reply-To: Lippard@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA

Steve Tynor:

> It sounds more like Tiefel ("devil" if I remember my German correctly)
> to me.

No, the German word for devil is Teufel.  The word in "Hello, Earth" is
definitely "tiefer" or perhaps "Tiefe" (noun meaning "the depths").  I
think it's "tiefer".

Jim Lippard (Lippard at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA)