Mick wrote: > Packet in English is almost always correctly used to denote a format of > network transmitted data (in the context of a conversation about IT and > computers) which is routable: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_(information_technology) > > The word packet also has other meanings like: a 'small amount of', a 'package > of' and can be used in the context of money (one's salary or earnings), > crisps, condoms, chewing-gums, etc. > > Therefore the word packet can be ambiguous in English too, if the context in > which it is mentioned is not known. >
Errrm ...... no ambiguity there. That is just an illustration of it's use: a packet of [data] [money (common use "pay packet")] [data] [crisps] [condoms], [chewing gum] [etc..] Be lucky, Neil http://www.neilwalker.ws
