an academic duel to the death over facebook - swashbuckling stuff ! On 10 October 2012 18:20, Martin Leese <martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org>wrote:
> Carsten Bohn wrote: > > >>It has sort of got lost in the melee. > ... > > This list has an amazing "side-effect", which is > > : getting to know "new words & things" that I > > haven't heard as off now, > > f.e. "M?l?e" : which Google translates in german > > to something like "fray in naval warfare? !? > > My English dictionary gives, "mixed fight, or > crowd". I was trying to convey the idea of a > disorganised fight. > > Given the accents (which I omitted because I > can never remember how to do them on my > keyboard) the word was probably borrowed > from French. > > Regards, > Martin > -- > Martin J Leese > E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org > Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > -- 07580951119 augustine.leudar.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20121010/6e1aef65/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
