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
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