On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:26:09AM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
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
Man, it's a joke. Relax, I'm not accusing you of being a German hater. I'm playing.... You know, where someone says something to get a laugh out of others. I have noticed you are very serious, which scares me. You're either republican, or in good need of a smack on the butt and a beer or something. You're not playful at all huh? Heh, I can be more wrong, I'm a social engineer, I can amke people think a lot about me. Heh, now what may make you really scratch your head is, do I really ask questions because I don't know, or because I want to see how nice people are? :) Relax man, I wasn't trying to make you out to be a hate monger or something. Smile. Ohhh, one more thing, please let me know if this doesn't wrap text, I just finished setting up Mutt on my Slackware 10 machine, and I'm not sure if I had set up word wrap yet, so if this looks very annoying too read, please let me know on or off the list.
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