Re: OT: Meaning of the word "free"

[Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>]

Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>> "Bogue" is an interesting word -- what does it really mean? Is it
> I'm not sure it is so interesting. In France we like French word :), 

So much that you don't call it byte, but octet :)

> The last one is certainly the most stupid in my view 

We here in Germany do it quite the other way round. We directly use
the English term. That's why a special computer (sorry, l'ordinateur :)
slang appeared and non-technical people were no longer able to follow.
But that doesn't really matter, because not understanding the terms
also means not to understand the plot. :)))

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".


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