= Сообщение: 10117 из 12491 ===================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 29 Dec 20 22:57:22 Кому : Michiel van der Vlist 29 Dec 20 22:57:22 Тема : Brexit FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5feba640 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+5feb4ab9 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: ASCII ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+5fec6ba1 ============================================================================== On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:18:17 Michiel van der Vlist -> David Rance wrote:
MvdV> Not so long ago French was the language of Post and telecommunication.
Not so long ago, French was the language of the upper classes. The reason that English has a vocabulary of around twice as many words as other languages is because we have two words for most things, one descended from French and the other from the Germanic languages. Our "posh" words are from French.
MvdV> GSM originally stands for "Groupe Speciale Mobile".
Oh, I thought it stood for "Guildhall School of Music"
Or "grams per square metre" (as in weight of paper).
MvdV> And of course Latin was the language of the academic world.
And of the church.
David -- Formerly ICHTHUS (Reading) UK (1987-2007 R.I.P.) (2:292/854.110)
