Don't get me wrong but Slackware is kinda "bloated"

mrclisdue · 09-15-2014, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ruario

I'm a native English speaker..."boutique"...
P.S. As a side note, thanks for teaching me something new!

To be honest, whether or not Germany_chris intended to or not, "boutique" absolutely nailed it as far as an adjective, it's almost "poetic."

cheers,

moisespedro · 09-15-2014, 06:38 AM

ruario, aren't you from Norway? And by the way I got what the guy said, People use that meaning in Portuguese.

Didier Spaier · 09-15-2014, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by ruario

I suspect (though will accept that I could be wrong) that few here would have understood what you were trying to say at first glance.

Due to my bad command of English language, alas I must admit that I am not among the (supposedly happy) few. I just hope that I'm not losing something major because of my lack of understanding

Germany_chris · 09-15-2014, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by mrclisdue

To be honest, whether or not Germany_chris intended to or not, "boutique" absolutely nailed it as far as an adjective, it's almost "poetic."

cheers,

It was intended.

I ride boutique bicycles and they have a religious following just like Slackware does and it can be off putting to most.

ruario · 09-15-2014, 07:31 AM

Ok, I thought about this a bit more and realised that I have seen the adjective version used. I have heard people refer to boutique hotels. i still think it isn't commonly used but whatever!

@moisespedro: No I am not from Norway. I am English/Irish (Ruarí is an Irish name). I have a Norwegian last name because I took my wife's name after marriage because I'm a hipster (actually because she seemed more attached to it then I was to my old "maiden" name).

Randicus Draco Albus · 09-15-2014, 07:44 AM

I apologise for keeping the current off-topic dialogue progressing, but I just remember hearing the word often in Australia as well, such as boutique beer.

Germany_chris · 09-15-2014, 07:49 AM

bou·tique
bo͞oˈtēk/
noun
noun: boutique; plural noun: boutiques

1.
a small store selling fashionable clothes or accessories.
2.
a business that serves a sophisticated or specialized clientele.
"a small investment boutique"

I ain't nuttin if not sofistcated.

ruario · 09-15-2014, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Randicus Draco Albus

I just remember hearing the word often in Australia as well, such as boutique beer.

Ok, so it is probably just me being ignorant. Sounds highly plausible.

GazL · 09-15-2014, 08:02 AM

Not just you. To my uncouth ears, "Boutique" has an air of pretentiousness about it, especially so when used as an adjective, and in-front of 'beer' sounds positively absurd.

It's the sort of word only marketing-men would use as an adjective. Everyone else would be quite content to use 'bespoke'.

Germany_chris · 09-15-2014, 08:14 AM

I like my bikes bespoke too

Didier Spaier · 09-15-2014, 08:33 AM

As far as I know the word boutique originates from the ancient Greek αποθήκη whose first attested usage is by Θουκυδίδης (Thucydide). This word was written apotheca in Latin then became in Italian bottega, in Occitan botica (also botiga and boutigo), in Spanish botica and bodegan in Catalan botiga then bodega, in ancient French boticle then bouticle, and nowadays in French and lately English boutique.

The German word apotheke comes directly from αποθήκη as well as the French word apothicaire.

allend · 09-15-2014, 08:33 AM

Maybe a bespoke taste, but pack something bootilicious with a full front side bus into a dirndl and I am liable to get bloated with a desire to head to a boutique hotel to ride something other than a bike.

Maybe another bespoke taste, but I find Slackware bloated in all the right places.

Randicus Draco Albus · 09-15-2014, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by allend

Maybe another bespoke taste, but I find Slackware bloated in all the right places.

I see a new slogan.
Slackware - The distro with hips.

brianL · 09-15-2014, 09:21 AM

Hip Hip Hooray!

EYo · 09-15-2014, 10:22 AM

I just quoted "Eternal September" somewhere else.

MOTD when logging in root this morning,

Quote:

This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of
the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many
solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were
largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper,
which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of
paper that were unhappy.
-- Douglas Adams

Oops! Wrong thread. Please never remove fortune though. ;-) 42 Thanks.