From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T06:00:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Article: Seeing Metaclasses Clearly

On 4/21/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
>
> > I like 'shadow class', since you can think of it as shadowing the #class
> > class. 'Eigenclass' was nice too, since 'eigen' has a long and
> > honourable tradition of being borrowed into English words.
> 
> I think that might happen sometimes for some particular reason having
> to do with the history of usage, but just translating into German out
> of the blue seems peculiar to me.
> 

But don't you know that random german words are "supremely chique.
handsome beyond description. geeky, yet bodaciously amazing"? [1]

Douglas

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uber-cool