On 07/12/2007, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stone free > The Jimi Hendrix version. > > Smoke free > All flights. > > fre > The Tivo version. > > > It seems the romance languages avoid the pitfall by sensibly having > two words for the two ideas, just like for penguins. So I'm on a > one-man campaign to import 'libre' into English.
Oh, but people will confuse it with livre, which has two meanings in French, "pound" (both weight and money) and "book". Sean > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
