From: Tim Porter <t.porter@bangor.ac.uk>
To: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: abutment = aboutement?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:07:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KWVoZ-0005jj-St@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Following the webpage:
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/aboutissement
perhaps the word outcome suggests itself.
Tim
Quoting "Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>:
> Fred Linton has in this mail enlighten us all about the meaning in french of
> the words "aboutissement" and "aboutement". Quite different meanings.
>
> (*) It seems that "aboutir" means more or less "to arrive" or "to finish"
> "come to the end" etc,
>
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 14:07 Tim Porter [this message]
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2008-08-22 16:46 Eduardo J. Dubuc
2008-08-22 13:30 wlawvere
2008-08-22 13:22 jim stasheff
2008-08-22 4:04 Fred E.J. Linton
2008-08-21 20:23 Robert L Knighten
2008-08-21 19:18 Vaughan Pratt
2008-08-21 14:30 Nimish Shah
2008-08-21 6:15 Eduardo J. Dubuc
2008-08-20 15:33 jim stasheff
2008-08-20 14:45 jim stasheff
2008-08-20 13:13 Michael Barr
2008-08-20 5:12 edubuc
2008-08-19 18:06 Vaughan Pratt
2008-08-19 6:28 mhebert
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