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