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 -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
