From: John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word "free"
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:51:18 +0000
Date: 2001-11-26T10:50:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C021EA6.4221485E@brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9toatb$4bn$1@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de
Adrian Knoth wrote:
> I could get amused about these differences. The cellphone, the mobile
> and wireless phone, is strange, too. In English it is cellphone,
> the Germans call it "Handy" (pronounced English, means "to hold it
> in the hand") and for the Frenchs it is nomade, which would (for us)
> mean "not to settle down" - "moving around, itinerant".
I think Americans call them cellphones, but in the UK they're "mobiles"
(or as they become ubiquitous, just plain "phones").
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2001-11-21 22:28 OT: Meaning of the word "free" Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-21 23:57 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-11-22 12:06 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-23 5:51 ` AG
2001-11-23 11:49 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-23 12:03 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-25 1:15 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-11-26 15:31 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-26 18:10 ` Wes Groleau
2001-11-22 1:44 ` OT: " Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-22 9:43 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-11-24 0:34 ` John English
2001-11-24 10:42 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-24 14:30 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-11-24 19:00 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-24 20:00 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-11-25 10:41 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-25 12:07 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-26 18:13 ` Wes Groleau
2001-11-25 13:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-11-25 22:43 ` David Starner
2001-11-26 9:31 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-11-26 10:51 ` John English [this message]
2001-11-26 18:56 ` OT: Meaning of the word Ted Dennison
2001-11-26 20:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-27 11:37 ` John English
2001-11-28 0:45 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-22 10:55 ` OT: Meaning of the word "free" Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 10:53 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 18:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-11-23 12:07 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 17:46 ` Julio Cano
2001-11-22 20:38 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-11-23 20:24 ` Julio Cano
2001-11-24 3:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-24 0:36 ` John English
2001-11-22 21:29 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-24 0:30 ` John English
2001-11-24 11:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-24 17:57 ` Robert Dewar
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2001-11-26 2:19 tmoran
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