Re: CONLANG/ZBB crossover (WAS: CONLANG article deleted from Wikipedia)

On 5/9/07, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> Same reason that you on some international mailing
> lists get chains on the form Re: Ant: Aw: Re(5): Sv: in front of
> the subject-line.
Well, the reason for that is that some software decides that Latin
"re:" is not Latin, but English, and should be translated into local
languages.

(Or a point could be made that it's not even Latin, but a syntactic
token in "RFC-2822-ese" which should be left alone -- much as one does
not translate, say, "From:" or "Subject:" in the headers of a
message.)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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