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echo: tech
to: JEAN PARROT
from: TOM WALKER
date: 2006-08-05 09:08:00
subject: On or Off ?

JP> TW> But IF you "Turn ON" some Spigots you DO get water.
JP> TW> While the term might be technicaly incorrect it has come into Common
JP> TW> usage over the years.

JP>        The funny part is that there is no litteral translation in
JP>   French for this expression. No turn on, one opens a tap. No turn
JP>   on, you light a light, strange this one is !

I have noticed over the years that the French have this "Thing" about
Purity of Language. Saddly they are losing the battle as "Wordly"
voculabray invades their day to day speach.
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