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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by kefka on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:49AM (#13356664)
As an aside, did you know that the word "Amen" actually is a acronym in the Jewish language that means "El melekh neʾeman" (or AMN) which translates to "God, trustworthy King". (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen)

I figured the etymology of that word was rather interesting. But yeah, I get the whole SysAd/Dev dual job. They're tough to balance and do effectively. SysAds are firefighters. When the nag(ios) alarm rings, we come a-callin.

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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by grzm on Monday January 09, 2017 @10:22AM (#13356925)
From that Wikipedia same article, it says

The Talmud teaches homiletically that the word amen is an acronym

The etymology section shows the word has much more prosaic roots. The Talmudic acronym seems to rather be an interesting backronym.

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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by krylon on Monday January 09, 2017 @11:49AM (#13357654)
> As an aside, did you know that the word "Amen" actually is a acronym in the Jewish language that means "El melekh neʾeman" (or AMN) which translates to "God, trustworthy King". (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen)

I did not know that. ;-) Thanks!

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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by eternalban on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @10:29PM (#13379638)
The fact is that nobody really knows. Talmud was written in ~200 BC and is an exegesis. Egypt is the elephant in the room of Hebraic history. It is possible it is an Egyptian loan word just like Moses -- "born" from water -- is an Egyptian name.
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