On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:22:48 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: > > I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating > > german > > words literally into english and as the the german word for package is > > "Paket" they come up with packet. > > Oh wow I did not know that. See I knew it had to have some reasonable > explanation. Thanks for the education.
Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that is less ambiguous than the German equivalent. I would not have thought it could be done. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
