[OSM-talk] Haiti feedback from IFRC

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

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?
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Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Project Officer
NRC-FOSS
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