Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)

[Terje Bless]

Kai Groþjohann <address@hidden> wrote:

>"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>>>>>"Terje" == Terje Bless <address@hidden> writes:
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>>Terje> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>If you refuse to learn,
>>
>>Many of the XEmacs developers who sympathize far more with you than he
>>does (or, to be honest, me) are being silent for various reasons.
>
>I think Eli is sympathizing with Terje.  Does "refuse" perhaps convey a
>stronger meaning to a native English speaker than I thought at first?
>
>For me, Eli was simply saying: if you don't want to learn, you might be
>missing something.  (I hope that "don't want" is less strong than
>"refuse", so that my point comes across.)

The connotations of the word "refuse" is probably what's causing the
confusion, yes. And it was, to be fair, me that used the word. cf. my other
message here.