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From: Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>
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Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word "free"
Date: 24 Nov 2001 20:00:14 GMT
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Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote:


>> > 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 :)
> At least "octet" come from the latin octo which means eight. So there is a
> meaning here :)

Yeah, I knew that. First I was a little bit confused like "Who they
believe they are? Everyone calls it byte?" but then I saw the pro
in teaching: you probably couldn't forget that eight bits are one "octet"

So to say: nice idea!


>> in the hand") and for the Frenchs it is nomade, which would (for us)
> No, French word for cellphone is mobile (pronounced "mobeel") 

Oh... I think I must call my former correspondent. He told me that it
is "nomade". But that was some years ago and cellphones were not so
widely spread.

I guess there is more than one term for cellphone, in addition to
"Handy" we also have "Funktelefon" (radio-phone) or "Mobil-Telefon"
(mobile phone).

How do you call WirelessLAN?

Oh this whole threads tends to be a little OT :)

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