Subject: RE: [xsl] what does "AW:" mean? From: "Lars Huttar" <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:04:06 -0600 |
> > Now a more difficult question: what does "RE" mean? > > http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.re.html > > From the Beginner's Guide to Effective Email: > > "Re" is a Latin word meaning "about", as in the title of the important > medieval book De re metallica. As someone already mentioned, "re" means "thing or matter"; in this title, it's the "De" that means "about". > "Re" has probably been used in correspondence since before there was > correspondence in English. That sounds more reasonable to me than someone's idea that Re: began with computers. It's interesting, though, that the way Re: is used in email today, it's associated strictly with replies; nobody uses "Re: ___" when they first compose an email message. (In contrast to its use in formal memos.) So its meaning in email is different from its former meaning, and one could speculate that the change in meaning was helped by the resemblance of "Re:" to "reply". Whoever was looking at the RFC regarding "Re:" before, did it say for what purpose it might be used? Did it specify replies? Lars XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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