On Friday 08 March 2002 19:50, Gary Turner wrote: > > The full version costs AFAIK EUR 20. (BTW, it often causes > > confusion that you have no English word for kostenlos / gratuit. > > Can't you invent one?) > --- snipped > > Optionally we could adopt "kostenlos" as we have "kaput," "dumkopf," > and "blitzkrieg." Unlike the French, English speakers have no > problem using/stealing the words that best do the job. :-)
I've seen many times that English native speakers use the Spanish word "gratis" to mean free as in beer. -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown
