From: "AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Meaning of the word "free"
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:51:07 +1300
Date: 2001-11-23T18:51:07+13:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5rlL7.240$XE.51549@news.xtra.co.nz> (raw)
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> In article <ybXK7.55171$XJ4.32942525@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com>, "Mark
Lundquist" <up.yerz@nospam.com> writes:
> >
> > "Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
> > news:5LHYDjy2Mcfg@eisner.encompasserve.org...
> >> Since certain people here in comp.lang.ada say that the English
> >> word "free" is overloaded, perhaps someone could answer a slightly
> >> off-topic question. The choices in French, as I understand it, are
> >> "libre" and "gratis". Which one of those corresponds to the use of
> >> "free" in the English phrase "bug-free" ?
As quite a few people have pointed out already, the most likely translation
would be "sans". The most common error is to assume that a foreign language
translation would use the same constructs and/or similar words.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
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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