[AMRadio] L'anglais tel qu'on le parle [Was: Transmitter Efficiency]

[James M. Walker]

Does no one read this stuff before spouting off? And major snippage
removes the intended content, thus allowing the lines left to be
interpreted just about anyway that anyone would like!
Hum, I think I will go and turn on MY BC-610(I) and tell it that it
can't
dip to 390 MADC anymore! Sigh!

"Ten-Four and good luck in the contest"

Jim
What was I thinking?
WB2FCN

Donald Chester wrote:
> 
> >From: "James M. Walker" <chejmw at acsu.buffalo.edu>
> 
> >NOPE WRONG AGAIN
> >From the Oxford English Dictionary follows:
> >     1. One who loves or is fond of; one who has a taste for anything.
> 
> > > We're supposed to be having FUN -
> > > isn't the word Amateur derrived from the word "to love" :-)
> 
> > > Steve WA1QIX
> 
> Actually "amateur" is borrowed directly from French "lover" in the sense
> that hams are "lovers" of radio. (The word for "lover" in the sexual sense
> is "amant").  By extension, in English it has also taken on the sense of
> "one who cultivates a thing as a pastime" (from The Consise Oxford
> Dictionary).
> 
> I recall once seeing a mis-translation into English of the title of a book
> on amateur radio "La Radio Pour Amateurs" as "Radio for Lovers".
> 
> The word for "to love" is simply "aimer".
> 
> Don K4KYV
> 
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