On Wednesday 27 Jan 2010 6:28:40 pm Frederik Ramm wrote: > clara wrote: > >>> what does ggf mean? (I cannot believe it is a dutch word) > >> > >> A German abbreviation for "gegebenenfalls" which, in this context, > >> translates as "perhaps". > > > > > > "ggf." "gegebenenfalls" needs to be translated as "where applicable" > > "if so" "where required". > > None of these makes sense in the context of the original message, that's > why I said that in this context it translates as "perhaps". And I say > that not because German is my mother tongue but because I know other > texts written by the same person and I know how he uses "ggf." ;-) >
this thread has perhaps reached 50 - and all we have done so far is clarify that the message in question is not dutch, afrikaans or double dutch - we are still clueless as to the meaning ;-) ggf? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
