[OSM-talk] Haiti feedback from IFRC
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Wed Jan 27 12:58:40 GMT 2010
Clara,
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." ;-)
Bye
Frederik
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