Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aside from being a terrible disease and felt as such, AIDS is a problem in French, and maybe in other languages too; lots of people mistake it for a short form of Adidas. CIT phx Daniel Ridings wrote: >On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote: > > >>adult caution... >> >>from France SIDA=AIDS >> >> >> > >Unfortunately, the Swedish equivalent to USAID, The Swedish >International Development Agency, ... is abbreviated SIDA. > >Causes problems in French (or Spanish, for that matter) speaking areas. > >Daniel > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >