[LBo] drive capacity puzzler

tim lnx4vr at 2fords.net
Sun Feb 4 18:27:31 CET 2007


Collin Park wrote:
> In case you weren't being completely tongue-in-cheek, 'schrieb' *is* a
> foreign (German?) word meaning "writes" or "wrote".  You know, like
> when quoting Stefan, there's a preamble like this:
>
>     On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 09:01 +0100, Stefan Waidele wrote:
>
> (because Kevin O'Brien uses an English-speaking mail client), whereas
> Stefan has a German-writing mail client, so when quoting you it looks
> like this:
>
>     tim schrieb:
>
> hth
> -collin
>
>   
OK.  That's funny.  I thought it might be just that, but a quick google search 
returned mostly family names.  Scribe; schrieb.  I should have noticed the 
similarity.  Thanks.


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