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From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Minor corrections
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:21:35
Message-Id: 20090720232121.5a487a3b@anaconda.krait.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] Minor corrections by Christian Faulhammer
1 On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:42:02 +0200
2 Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>:
7 >
8 > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:42:11 +0200
9 > > Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
10 > > > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>:
11 > > > > >>>>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
12 > > > >
13 > > > > > "ill defined" sounds not nice(TM) to me, so I still vote for a
14 > > > > > different wording, not for the intention. "volatile" seemed
15 > > > > > suitable to me but I may be convinced to a different vocabulary.
16 > > > >
17 > > > > How about "indeterminate"? Or pick another synonym from this list:
18 > > > > <http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/ill-defined>
19 > > >
20 > > > I went with indeterminate.
21 > >
22 > > I've reverted this. Your change was grammatically incorrect and wasn't
23 > > what had been discussed on this list, and you've still not explained
24 > > why 'ill-defined' is in any way hostile.
25 >
26 > This seems to be a cultural misunderstanding. In my ears (and ulm's
27 > initially, we have the same mother tongue) "ill-defined" sounds hostile,
28 > though it seems, that this is not true for native speakers of English.
29 >
30 > V-Li
31 >
32 >
33 In English, "ill-defined" is not at all hostile. I'd say it was the
34 opposite of "well defined", but "well defined" is a mathematical term
35 and is specialized.
36
37 > --
38 > Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
39 > <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
40 >
41 > <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>
42
43 Regards,
44 Ferris
45 --
46 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
47 Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees)

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