(finjan and filjan - (not disposable) coffee cup without handle to fit
into a larger brass cup with no handle again.)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Gillam [SMTP:css1lg@ee.surrey.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 2:41 PM
> To: corpora@hd.uib.no
> Subject: Re: Corpora: Zarf now freely available for civilian use.
> (fwd)
>
>
> .... alternatively, in a coffee break, at
> http://www.city.ac.uk/multics/mgz.htm
> l#ZARF, one
> finds:
>
> ZARF
> Air Force/MITRE tiger team project that cracked
> Multics
> security. "Zarf" is Turkish for a
> coffee cup, applied by the Air Force to those white
>
> disposable cups that fit into a brown
> holder with a handle, which they called a finjan,
> also the
> appropriate Turkish term. They
> picked this project name to be as obscure as
> possible.
> {Story: How the Air Force Cracked
> Multics Security}
>
> Perhaps time to switch to decaffeinated?
>
> > Lou,
> > surely Zarf *does* have a meaning,
> > viz something like :
> > Zarf: a codeword used by US National Security Agency to reference
> specific
> > classified information; the term Zarf is UNCLASSIFIED, even though
> > Information protected by the Zarf codeword will continue to require
> > protection.
> >
> > is this really very different from, say:
> >
> > BNC: a codeword used by the international Corpus Linguistics
> community to
> > refer to a specific dataset; the term BNC is widely-used, even
> though
> > only a small cognoscenti have detailed knowledge of the contents and
> > structure of the dataset.
> >
> > Eric (well,it's somthing to waste my lunchbreak on...)
> >
> >
> > Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES
> Coordinator,
> > and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech
> (CCALAS)
> > School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT,
> England
> > EMAIL: eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk TEL: (44)113-2335761 FAX:
> (44)113-2335468
> > WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html
> >
>
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