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Graham. October 17th 07 05:14 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.
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Ivan October 17th 07 05:29 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 

"Graham." wrote in message
...
What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.
--

Found this..

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This
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?world'wide adjective, adverb

(extending over or found) everywhere in the world
Example: a worldwide sales network; Their products are sold worldwide.

Graham

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Andrew October 17th 07 05:31 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:14:23 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.


What does the DR stand for? The only DRM I know is Digital Rights
Management.
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Tim Hall October 17th 07 05:39 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:14:23 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.


That's mondiale, with an e.

Worldwide.

French, innit.


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Adrian A October 17th 07 05:45 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
Andrew wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:14:23 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.


What does the DR stand for? The only DRM I know is Digital Rights
Management.


Digital Radio



Andrew October 17th 07 05:50 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:45:53 +0100, "Adrian A"
wrote:

What does the DR stand for? The only DRM I know is Digital Rights
Management.


Digital Radio


Ahh, and there was me expecting something to do with TV.
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ChrisM October 17th 07 05:50 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
In message ,
Graham. Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.


According to:
http://www.google.com/translate_t?langpair=it|en

MondialE is Italian for 'World'

Which makes some sort of sense, I guess...


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ChrisM October 17th 07 05:51 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
In message ,
ChrisM Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

In message ,
Graham. Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.


According to:
http://www.google.com/translate_t?langpair=it|en

MondialE is Italian for 'World'

Which makes some sort of sense, I guess...


..... Or French for 'World' ...

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Chris.
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charles October 17th 07 05:51 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
In article ,
Graham. wrote:
What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.


how about it being the French word for "worldwide"?

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ChrisM October 17th 07 05:56 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
In message ,
ChrisM Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

In message
,
ChrisM Proclaimed from the tallest
tower:
In message ,
Graham. Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.


According to:
http://www.google.com/translate_t?langpair=it|en

MondialE is Italian for 'World'

Which makes some sort of sense, I guess...


.... Or French for 'World' ...


Or even (as Tim pointed out just as I made my first post on the subject)
French for WorldWIDE... :-/

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Chris.
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Graham. October 17th 07 06:29 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 


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"ChrisM" wrote in message
...
In message ,
ChrisM Proclaimed from the tallest
tower:

In message
,
ChrisM Proclaimed from the tallest
tower:
In message ,
Graham. Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.

According to:
http://www.google.com/translate_t?langpair=it|en

MondialE is Italian for 'World'

Which makes some sort of sense, I guess...


.... Or French for 'World' ...


Or even (as Tim pointed out just as I made my first post on the subject)
French for WorldWIDE... :-/


OK I will buy that, but why didn't they put the rest of
it in French too, then I suppose it would have to be
RDM.
Maybe Sandial would be better...
....because digital radios tend not to have them.
Dials I mean.
OK, I'll get me coat.

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Graham.
%Profound_observation%



Charlie Pearce October 20th 07 12:08 AM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:29:29 +0100, "Graham." wrote:



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"ChrisM" wrote in message
...
In message ,
ChrisM Proclaimed from the tallest
tower:

In message
,
ChrisM Proclaimed from the tallest
tower:
In message ,
Graham. Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.

According to:
http://www.google.com/translate_t?langpair=it|en

MondialE is Italian for 'World'

Which makes some sort of sense, I guess...

.... Or French for 'World' ...


Or even (as Tim pointed out just as I made my first post on the subject)
French for WorldWIDE... :-/


OK I will buy that, but why didn't they put the rest of
it in French too, then I suppose it would have to be
RDM.


RNM, even.

Charlie
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James Hart October 20th 07 04:03 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
Tim Hall wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:14:23 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.


That's mondiale, with an e.

Worldwide.

French, innit.


Strange, I'm off to http://www.mondialduski.com/ in just over a week's time
and there's no 'e' on the end in their spelling.

James...



Max Demian October 21st 07 07:15 PM

What does the word "Mondial" mean
 
"Alan Pemberton" wrote in message
erve.co.uk.invalid...
James Hart wrote:

Tim Hall wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:14:23 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

What does the word "Mondial" mean
as in the M in DRM?
Apart from an Italian motorbike I can find no definition.

That's mondiale, with an e.

Worldwide.

French, innit.


Strange, I'm off to http://www.mondialduski.com/ in just over a week's
time
and there's no 'e' on the end in their spelling.


It's a gender issue.


There's only one world: it's either a girl or a boy.

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Max Demian




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