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On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:42:11 +0200 |
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Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>: |
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> > >>>>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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> > > "ill defined" sounds not nice(TM) to me, so I still vote for a |
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> > > different wording, not for the intention. "volatile" seemed |
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> > > suitable to me but I may be convinced to a different vocabulary. |
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> > How about "indeterminate"? Or pick another synonym from this list: |
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> > <http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/ill-defined> |
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> I went with indeterminate. |
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Please revert that. Your change is at best grammatically questionable, |
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and it means something entirely different to "ill-defined". |
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You still haven't convinced me that there's anything in any way hostile |
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about the original wording, anyway: |
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ill-defined adj. Not defined clearly or distinctly: an ill-defined |
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concept; an ill-defined view across the foggy moor. |
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All that implies is that "what Portage does" is not defined clearly or |
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distinctly, which is exactly the case. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |