Bruce Adams wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:38:29 -0000, Yigal Chripun <yigal100@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ty Tower wrote:
>>> Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:
>>> Dil     DIL   Hmm in English Dill is a stupid person as well as a herb
>>>
>>> DLL is windows Dynamically Linked Library
>>>
>>> It all seems a little close don't you think ?
>>>
>>
>> dil is not dill (notice the extra "L" you've added at the end?)
>> dil is a Turkish work for "language" so it represents the intention of
>> the project (a D language compiler).
>> Do you always assume that everything you read online is in English?
>> that wouldn't be a smart assumption as most of the world has a different
>> native language than English.
>> would you also assume [for example] that "Ubuntu" is some kind of
>> English word/slang?
>>
>> -- Yigal
>
> Anyone else spot the irony in making that complaint in English?
what's the irony exactly? please enlighten me...
אולי אתה מעדיף שאני אכתוב בעברית?

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:39:49 +0100, Aarti_pl wrote:
> 
>> Jarrett Billingsley pisze:
>>> I've never heard of a "dill" being a stupid person, though.  Maybe that's a British thing.  I kind of like dill, it sounds fresh and herby ;) 
>> He probably meant 'dull'.
>>
>> BR
>> Marcin Kuszczak
>> (aarti_pl)
> 
> No, "dill" is an English (and thus Australian) term for a person that is a
> little bit silly or thoughtless. It is not very degatory or offensive, even
> a bit playful maybe.
> 

Right.  A dill is a form of pickle so in essence you're calling someone stupid like a pickle.

-Joel