14 Oct
2004
14 Oct
'04
10:57
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 16:54, 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.
It's a bit odd that the use of pre-order by infomercials has been over looked.