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Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
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Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:43:28 +0000 |
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Hi, Kenichi,
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 09:16:25PM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> Anyway, for me (a non native English speeker), the more helpful thing
> is to standardise which word to use (e.g. remove/delete,
> replace/substitute, accept/permit/allow, preserve/retain,
> put/set/store, property/attribute, vector/array, go-to/move-to,
> cancel/undo, etc.) :-p
NO!! Different words have different meanings. For example, if you
delete something, it's gone. If you remove something, you can later put
it back again.
You might substitute a fresh football player for a tired one, but you'd
replace a broken light bulb (answer, it only takes one Emacs hacker to
change a light bulb).
And so on.
There a few pairs of words indeed in English in which one means exactly
the same as the other. It is surely the same in other languages. Let us
strive, always, to use the most fitting word, and to preserve and retain
the fine control this gives us over our meanings.
> Kenichi Handa
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, (continued)
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Agustin Martin, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, David Kastrup, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Johan Bockgård, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, David Kastrup, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/30
Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/27