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[ILUG] Red Hat in Easons.

[ILUG] Red Hat in Easons.

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Mon Oct 1 22:56:32 IST 2001


On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Liam Bedford wrote:

> >  > distinction between free and free - libre and gratis in French, or speech
> >                                                  ^^^^^^ that's `gratuit.'
> > #endif /* NIT_PICKING_LIKE_THE_PEDANT_I_AM */
> > 
> <more nit_picking>
> They use gratis in belgium. And I think it was the belgian french, rather
> than the Belgian Flemish.
> </more nit_picking>

Aside: "gratis" is dutch for free, which might explain why belgian's 
use it. though it surprises me they would, as the french speaking 
belgians are terribly disdainful of anything vlaams or dutch.

> L.

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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