Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:27 04.04.1998 -0500, Jeff wrote: >This brings to mind a something I've been wondering for some time. >Whenever I read Leica literature in English, it's constantly going on >about the Leica `program' -- generally in a context where I'd expect the >word `system'. Is this an artifact of translation from German, or is it >a quirk of British English? If you speak of a 'Programm' (program) in German, you also mean the (realization of an) underlying idea or intertion, while the system is "just" an enumeration/ counting or description (?, word) of the somehow linked materials. More clear ? I'm afraid: No :) Alf - -------------------------------------------------- http://members.aol.com/abreull/index.htm