From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,811674947553ef14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-23 18:41:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word "free" Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:34:19 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3BFEEB0B.E1C0E709@brighton.ac.uk> References: <5LHYDjy2Mcfg@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3BFC5861.D3E2B270@acm.org> <3bfcc8a9$0$15836$626a54ce@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-b6.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1006561756 6101 194.81.199.186 (24 Nov 2001 00:29:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Nov 2001 00:29:16 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16917 Date: 2001-11-24T00:29:16+00:00 List-Id: Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote: > > That would be "sans insectes" but we use "bug" or "bogue" for this > meaning of bug, so "sans bogues", "sans bugs". "Libre" is sometimes > used also with the meaning "without" so "libre de bugs/bogues" would > also be correct but I don't remeber seeing it used. "Bogue" is an interesting word -- what does it really mean? Is it related to the English words "bogle" or "bogy" (both of which mean a goblin)? As in "gremlin", maybe? ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------