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: 2001-11-26 03:41:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!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: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:51:18 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3C021EA6.4221485E@brighton.ac.uk> References: <5LHYDjy2Mcfg@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3BFC5861.D3E2B270@acm.org> <3bfcc8a9$0$15836$626a54ce@news.free.fr> <3BFEEB0B.E1C0E709@brighton.ac.uk> <9toatb$4bn$1@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1006771800 27662 193.62.183.154 (26 Nov 2001 10:50:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Nov 2001 10:50:00 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16974 Date: 2001-11-26T10:50:00+00:00 List-Id: 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"). ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------