Thread: Television set?
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Old 12th Dec 2019, 10:02 pm   #65
PaulM
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Default Re: Television set?

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A post, I think in English, French, Dutch and German all the same, can also mean a stationary contraption or position related to some activity or functionality.
I came to guess (no thanks to teacher . . .) that it might be something like an employee being 'in post', but I wasn't sure. The person watching the TV was 'employed' in the process of watching. It could also (so I thought), be like a 'custom's post' or a 'first-aid post' where things/services happened. The idea of it being a 'post' as found in a fence seemed too far-fetched, so the 'in post' or 'service point' concept seemed more plausible. I still don't know for sure and I guess it doesn't really matter . . .

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