Re: OT: The joys of email (was: Re: CONLANG/ZBB crossover)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 15:26 |
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On 5/9/07, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> Never thought it could be seen as latin at all, neat!
Oh, yes. many people think that RE: is short for REPLY or something,
but it's actually from Latin RES ("thing"). It was originally the
office-memo's equivalent of what in email is the Subject: header...
what the memo is about, whether it's a reply or not.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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