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« on: August 09, 2005, 03:40:20 PM » |
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In common English usage the word "eligible" has nothing to do with elections. It simply means, "can be" or "is allowed to be", so "not eligible" means "can't be". No ambiguity whatsoever. Of course, the etimology of the word "eligible" does relate it to "elections", but this is irrelevant here. I would conjecture (though I know almost no French), that in French the word "eligible" has a much more immediate meaning of electability. Hence the confusion.
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