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Re: TLG press release - not a crisis?
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Sun, 24 Jan 1999 11:03:14 GMT
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 04:15:41 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
wrote:

We went through this in the robotics group; it was a mess.

I know... I was there.

But I believe the US usage is derived from the French, so blame them.

Damn the frogs!! *apologizes in advance to the milliards of French
frogs he's just insulted*

Jasper



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  Re: TLG press release - not a crisis?
 
(...) Hardly. The french deserve a lot of credit... hmm.. Oh yes. The metric system. AND... raising "haughty" to an art form. (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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[followup set to lugnet.off-topic.fun] (...) We went through this in the robotics group; it was a mess. But I believe the US usage is derived from the French, so blame them. (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)

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