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