From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>
Subject: Re: A RE: SV: AW: "collapser", anyone...?
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 13:00:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r86cs9cy.fsf@asfast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86isro31gi.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "02 Jun 2003 09:10:05 -0700")
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.
--
Lloyd Zusman
ljz@asfast.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-02 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-31 23:23 Steinar Bang
[not found] ` <hhhe7ak6ph.fsf@blah.pl>
2003-06-01 21:34 ` Steinar Bang
2003-06-01 21:51 ` Steinar Bang
2003-06-02 9:37 ` Niklas Morberg
[not found] ` <hhn0gy39il.fsf@blah.pl>
2003-06-04 7:33 ` Niklas Morberg
[not found] ` <hh8yshzuup.fsf@blah.pl>
2003-06-05 5:53 ` Steinar Bang
2003-06-05 6:48 ` Niklas Morberg
2003-06-09 20:26 ` Steinar Bang
2003-06-15 12:07 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-20 5:17 ` Steinar Bang
2003-06-15 12:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-05 17:25 ` A " Ted Stern
[not found] ` <hh7k7z4yeq.fsf@blah.pl>
2003-06-06 10:11 ` lawrence mitchell
[not found] ` <hhd6hpxel9.fsf@blah.pl>
2003-06-09 20:47 ` Steinar Bang
2003-06-04 13:56 ` A RE: SV: " Johan Bockgård
2003-06-02 16:10 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-06-02 17:00 ` Lloyd Zusman [this message]
2003-06-02 17:05 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-06-02 17:50 ` Harry Putnam
2003-06-03 6:12 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-03 6:16 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-04 15:56 ` Martin Thornquist
2003-06-03 11:49 ` Colin Marquardt
2003-06-03 12:13 ` Norbert Koch
2003-06-04 5:34 ` Oystein Viggen
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