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Subject: Re: A RE: SV: AW: "collapser", anyone...?
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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>
>>>>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej Matysiak <phoner.ding@blah.pl> writes:
>>
>> Maciej> i'm all for expanding it with localized prefixes (polish 'odp', swedish 'sv',
>> Maciej> and so on).
>>
>> There are no such things as "localized prefixes".  Any software that
>> puts anything other than "Re:" is broken.  "Re" is latin... it's not
>> English.  There's no need to change it when going to a different
>> language.
>>
>> And may the implementers in Redmond who thought otherwise burn in hell.
>
> One small point: "re" indeed is latin, but it's use in email stems from
> a custom that existed long before the days of email, in written
> correspondence and reports, where the letters "re" abbreviated the
> English word "regarding".  The correspondence of this abbreviation with
> the latin word "re" is coincidental.
>
> Besides that small point, I am in 100 percent agreement with everything
> else you have expressed here.

... and it has just occurred to me that some M$ weenies might think that
"Re" stands for "Redmond".  :)

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
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