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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] New menu structure proposal
From:       Marco Romeny <marco () mimecom ! net>
Date:       2004-01-14 15:23:00
Message-ID: 40055ED4.1000803 () mimecom ! net
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 That's what my swedish teacher told me as well, but
what about CD's? Isn't the meaning of the word 'medium'
referring to 'bearer of information'. Like a CD...

I'd call a CD with images of my dead ancestors a medium...

/m

Per Lindström wrote:

>On Wednesday 14 January 2004 15.54, Goetz Waschk wrote:
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>>Am Mi 14 Jan 2004 15:43:57 GMT schrieb Marco Romeny:
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>>>Btw, shouldn't medias in rpmdrake be called mediums? I might have
>>>gotten it completely wrong though.  'What medium would you like to
>>>use to install....?'  - 'CD' or 'FTP'....
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>>We already had this a few months ago, I don't remember the results.
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>Medium has (at least) two different meanings. The kind of people you contact 
>if you want to talk to your dead ancestors are called (in plural) mediums. 
>Radio, TV etc. are called (in plural) media.
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>/Per Lindström
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