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Re: Prevent "Re: " prepending to subject when replying (patch



On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:20:46AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
> Thanks for the explanations.  I had always just assumed that "Re"
> was from the English "regarding" or "with regard to".  

It is English, technically, but in the same way that ballet and
chateau are English (they're French words borrowed directly).

> I didn't know that it came directly from Latin.  I had also assumed
> that it was a matter for localization because of mutt's inclusion of
> "aw" in its default 'reply_regexp'.

I suspect this is more because Thomas R. is German, and it's common
there... ;-)

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