On Thursday, 14 October 2004 01.15, Allen wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:59:06PM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 October 2004 23.54, Philipp Thomas wrote:
James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> [Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:09:57 -0400]:
How does one "pre-order"? Either you ordered it, or you didn't.
Sigh, it's just a another case of germish. The German term is Vorbestellung for which a correct English term would have been 'advance booking', as http://dict.leo.org will show.
No, preorder is perfectly fine English, it's not even a new construct, it's known since at least the 19th century, to mean "to order to arrange beforehand, to foreordain"
Du Habe AntiGerman thing?
huh? That's an interesting conclusion, how do you reach that? Nothing in the above - or in anything else I've posted for that matter - comes even close to saying that. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried