Re: Ombud?

From: Torsten Poulin (t_usenet_drop_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/28/04

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Date: 28 Jun 2004 10:02:01 GMT

Ron Hardin wrote:

> My question is whether this is even a choice, or if it doesn't
> produce the opposite meaning, since both words ['ombud' and
> 'ombudsman' -tp] exist already elsewhere, with connotations
> that I'm trying to discover here, in Swedish and apparently
> Danish too.

Why should it matter what 'ombud' means in other languages?

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Torsten

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