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#87465 - 11/20/02 02:41 PM p.17 assiette
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	This was a real stinker. Not in any dictionary I could find, English or French. But I found several sites that mentioned it. Many were names of reataurants. One was a magazine "L'Assiette de la Beurre" A couple were about tables for computation. An "assiete de calcul" was a hand held calculator. Finally I found a couple sites that showed pictures of"Assiettes" that were plainly dinner plates. I'm still annoyed.
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#87466 - 11/21/02 01:19 AM from my french :assiette
emanuela enthusiast Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 315 Loc: Italy - Perugia is a town with...	means dish indeed. Anyway, assiette of calcul is like our "assetto di calcolo", and here assetto is - ah, very hard to describe. Assetto comes clearly from "sedere" = to seat, and the meaning is that you as a person are in assetto di calcolo when you seat comfortably, and ready to computate, and in the appropriate mood to do it. Something like "mode" in the watch instructions.
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