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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: informatics
- Message-ID: <9301262325.AA18340@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:25:14 GMT
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- :In article <1993Jan26.215230.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au> eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan) writes:
- :>In article <C1Etoz.2K7@incc.com>, jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) writes:
- :>> I am seeing the word "informatics" used a lot by people over here in
- :>> Belgium, yet this word is not in any of my 'English' dictionaries.
- :>>
- :>> This is a word of French origin but is it used anywhere else, I
- :>> particularly like the word better than ADP or EDP or IT, any
- :>> comments?
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- :It all depends if you look at the dictionary meaning or how the word
- :is used, in Belgium the word informatique, is used just like it is
- :described in the "Le Robert & Collins":
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- : Informatique computer science, 1 nf (science) computing: (techniques)
- : data processing. il est dans l'~ he's in computing; l'ere de l'~ the
- : age of the computer. 2 adj computer (epith).
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- :Hmmmmm, maybe a long time ago, now we all speak good English like
- :what you do :-) seriously, this may have come about from the Flemish
- :(Dutch) influence, I am only guessing, I have not heard this before.
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- Isn't this what the Dutch call 'Informatica'? The Dutch are very keen on
- re-inventing Latin...
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- G
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