[MaraDNS list] Why duende?

[Sam Trenholme]

You're right, of course, but let me tell you a story...

Once upon a time, when I was at Berkeley (this was back when the legendary
XCF fishtank still existed), someone was pronouncing "daemon" "Demon" and
was quickly corrected; the pronunciation is "daemon" (Like "day-min" or, in
IPA: /dei.mIn/).  Likewise, with "duende", I wanted to use a word that was
not "demon".

Actually, the real reason I chose "Duende" is because it's a word in a song
by a former Mexican pop group I liked called Kabah in their hit "La Calle de
las Sirenas":

http://samiam.org/kabah.html

To really digress, while the group has broken up, the singer I had a crush
on, Maria Jose, has a really post-Kabah successful solo career (@lajosa on
Twitter / http://twitter.com/#!/lajosa [1] )

- Sam

[1] No, I do not know why Twitter has a "lajosa" program in their root
directory, nor what scripts written in lajosa look like.  :)

2011/7/12 Jan-Piet Mens <jpmens.dns at gmail.com>

> > It's Spanish for "daemon" :)
>
> Daemon is demonio.
> Duende is an elf or goblin.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duende_(mythology)
>
>        -JP
>