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Hi, |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>: |
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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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> I've reverted this. Your change was grammatically incorrect and wasn't |
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> what had been discussed on this list, and you've still not explained |
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> why 'ill-defined' is in any way hostile. |
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This seems to be a cultural misunderstanding. In my ears (and ulm's |
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initially, we have the same mother tongue) "ill-defined" sounds hostile, |
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though it seems, that this is not true for native speakers of English. |
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V-Li |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |