[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

Thu Feb 10 09:54:58 CET 2011

It is funny how English is a mongrel language evolved from French (which 
+used to be the language of the gentry in England up 'til around the 
+fourteenth century I think), German, Latin and Scandinavian across the 
+centuries, and how every other language in the world now takes English 
+words and uses them.
+
+In the case of libre, I believe it used to be a word commonly used in 
+English, but fell out of fashion. I suppose liberate and liberty are the 
+closest derived words commonly in use.
+
+It's fair to say that it's the closest we have in terms of 
+differentiating between the French words "gratuit" and "libre". It's 
+odd, because often in English we have two words for the same thing (eg 
+start/commence) where we have kept the German and French words in use; 
+in this case we have one word for two meanings!
+
+On 10/02/11 08:32, Marianne Lombard wrote:
+> Hi
+>
+> I've seen some english-speaking conference where the word "libre" was
+> use instead of "free as free speach".
+> For one time, it's english who appropriate an french word.
+>
+> Perhaps can we use it too ?
+>
+>
+> My 2 cents
+