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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> writes:

> 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 :)

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

> 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)

No, French word for cellphone is mobile (pronounced "mobeel") or portable the
short form for "t�l�phone portable".

Pascal.

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