Re: Debian WWW CVS: spanish
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:50:56PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
> I thought flyers where more the papers you fold twice or thrice and
> pamphlets (yes, panflets was an awful mistake, should have checked) just
> simple pieces of papers.
> I was making the translation:
> tripticos=flyers
> panfletos=pamphlets
English uses the opposite meaning for those. More specifically, a
flyer is any advertisement while a pamphlet is technically a small
paper book. In colloquial usage, though, pamphlet is used for any
folded (advertising) material.
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James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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