From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Ada & MacOS
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:32:03 +0100
Date: 2006-02-04T15:26:38+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139063522.9375.7.camel@sonnenregen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1739376.IxszZf0dzC@linux1.krischik.com>
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 08:04 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> > I appreciate everything you're doing to promote Ada, but I wish you'd
> > learn that the English word is "standard".
> Tricky: "standart" is German for "standard". See the problem?
No, the German word is not Standart, it is Standard, too.
Always has been, and the recent reform hasn't changed Standard.
"Standard" in the sense of a flag is "Standarte"
in German. Note that this word ends in 'e'.
For a pun, see
http://www.k-faktor.com/standart/
-- Georg
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-02 10:53 Ada & MacOS sg
2006-02-02 14:48 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-02-02 17:13 ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-02 19:37 ` sg
2006-02-02 21:30 ` Björn Persson
2006-02-02 23:17 ` sg
2006-02-03 7:32 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-02-03 19:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-06 10:15 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-02-03 16:27 ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-03 19:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-04 7:04 ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-04 14:32 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2006-02-06 8:20 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-02-06 18:48 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-06 20:44 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-02-07 9:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-02-07 16:16 ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-08 4:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-08 7:35 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-02-09 14:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-02-06 19:25 ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-06 20:34 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-02-07 16:13 ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-03 23:55 ` Simon Williams
2006-02-04 16:22 ` Adrian Hoe
2006-02-04 16:25 ` Adrian Hoe
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