"Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?"
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@Carnage Now that you mention it...
Test
Testa
Testaferrata Moroni Viani
Testaferrate
Testagrossa
Testall
Testam
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@acrow In case you hadn't guessed from those, "teste" is old French (latin...) for "head" (modern French being tête, which is the exact same word with the very common "est" -> "êt" evolution).
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@remi I hadn't, actually. For me those are just a long list of reasons to not regexp for "$test*" as a marker for test accounts.
I have heard of tete, but thought it meant more along the lines of "boss". Because that was in the context of tete d'rue, which I understand means "street boss".
Finnish is far enough removed from both English and French that "ferrate" and "grossa" don't mean anything to me.
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Amusingly (yeah, I nerd-sniped myself...), "head" and "testicles" do come from the same origin. Well, at least the French words do. Head is tête which derives from testa, latin for some sort of round pot, testicles is testicules which derives from... testa, with a -culus suffix indicating a small version of the thing. Both of which kind of make sense. But the similarity is amusing.
(Wiktionary mentions a theory for tête that "round pot" started to be used as some sort of analogy/expression/insult and then became the common word, replacing the original latin "caput" which gave e.g. French chef ("chief" but also... "head," in a couple of cases, though "chief" as "hierarchical superior" obviously also comes from the fact it's the "head" (of state etc.))
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@acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
I have heard of tete, but thought it meant more along the lines of "boss".
It also does, but in the same way as "head" in English may be a "boss," e.g. "head of state."
But as I just said in the other post, in French words for "boss" that are related to "head" tend to come from latin "caput" (chef) rather than "testa" (tête). Though it depends. We have a chef d'état (head of state) but a tête de file (figurehead, roughly).
"ferrate" and "grossa" don't mean anything to me.
"grossa" is clearly related to "big, large" and a name like "big head" absolutely makes sense. I'm less sure about "ferrate," it sounds like fer (iron) but I think this might be a red herring and IIRC in Italian this has some relationship to "red" (which is also probably related to "iron" through rust!). So maybe "red head" which also makes a lot of sense?
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@acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@Carnage Now that you mention it...
Test
Testa
Testaferrata Moroni Viani
Testaferrate
Testagrossa
Testall
Testam
[...]
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@remi said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
I have heard of tete, but thought it meant more along the lines of "boss".
It also does, but in the same way as "head" in English may be a "boss," e.g. "head of state."
Yes, but the "heads" on a sailing ship were the toilets.
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@dkf said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@remi said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
I have heard of tete, but thought it meant more along the lines of "boss".
It also does, but in the same way as "head" in English may be a "boss," e.g. "head of state."
Yes, but the "heads" on a sailing ship were the toilets.
Any ship or boat, and also on-shore, if you're in the navy.
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@HardwareGeek said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@dkf said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@remi said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
I have heard of tete, but thought it meant more along the lines of "boss".
It also does, but in the same way as "head" in English may be a "boss," e.g. "head of state."
Yes, but the "heads" on a sailing ship were the toilets.
Any ship or boat, and also on-shore, if you're in the navy.
Don't you have to cut the glory hole first for it to count, onshore?
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@dkf said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@remi said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
I have heard of tete, but thought it meant more along the lines of "boss".
It also does, but in the same way as "head" in English may be a "boss," e.g. "head of state."
Yes, but the "heads" on a sailing ship were the toilets.
And iirc a boss would be something you hitch a line around the neck of. Sounds nice, the sailing life.
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@Gribnit said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@dkf said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@remi said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
I have heard of tete, but thought it meant more along the lines of "boss".
It also does, but in the same way as "head" in English may be a "boss," e.g. "head of state."
Yes, but the "heads" on a sailing ship were the toilets.
And iirc a boss would be something you hitch a line around the neck of. Sounds nice, the sailing life.
That or a thing to screw, →bottle bosses on a bike frame.
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@Gribnit said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@dkf said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@remi said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
I have heard of tete, but thought it meant more along the lines of "boss".
It also does, but in the same way as "head" in English may be a "boss," e.g. "head of state."
Yes, but the "heads" on a sailing ship were the toilets.
And iirc a boss would be something you hitch a line around the neck of. Sounds nice, the sailing life.
And a boss could be any lump that sticks out (hence emboss).
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@dkf said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
@Carnage Now that you mention it...
Test
Testa
Testaferrata Moroni Viani
Testaferrate
Testagrossa
Testall
Testam
[...]Which gives its name to the Test Valley which means several local organisations with that in their name - e.g. Test Valley Borough Council, Test Valley Golf Club.
It did make me go the first time I saw them in our B2B systems.