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Perales
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 Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:20 am Post subject: fant in Digifant? |
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Curious about etymology.
OK, I get "Digi"
What the heck is "fant"
Somebody's gotta know !
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:03 am Post subject: Re: fant? |
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| Perales wrote: | Curious about etymology.
OK, I get "Digi"
What the heck is "fant"
Somebody's gotta know ! |
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I thought you knew?
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danfromsyr
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:10 am Post subject: |
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I take [Fant] as Speach or Language
from the definition of INFANT (english)
| Quote: | Origin of INFANT
Middle English enfaunt, from Anglo-French enfant, from Latin infant-, infans, from infant-, infans, adjective, incapable of speech, young, from in- + fant-, fans, present participle of fari to speak — more at ban
First Known Use: 14th century
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So maybe it's Digital Language  
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Interesting question, I was curious too.
I asked my German colleague to look it up for me and it turns out to be a name coined from the German words Digitaler and Elefant. Those crazy Bosch engineers......
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If you don't know what it is, I wouldn't eat it!
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| Syncro Pilot wrote: | Interesting question, I was curious too.
I asked my German colleague to look it up for me and it turns out to be a name coined from the German words Digitaler and Elefant. Those crazy Bosch engineers...... |
Except... Digifant is not Bosch. Digifant is Volkswagen's in-house variant of the Bosch L-Jetronic fuel management system. So, it's those crazy VW engineers at it again.  
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