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On Monday 03 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> On Monday 03 March 2008, Stroller wrote: |
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> > On 3 Mar 2008, at 09:57, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > > On Monday 3 March 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: |
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> > >> NOTE: I don't speak spanish. But somehow, I read it thusly: |
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> > >> On Mon, 03. Mar, mvidela@××××××××.ar spammed my inbox with |
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> > >> |
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> > >>> todos los temas relacionados con soporte técnico |
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> > >> |
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> > >> all technical support requests (relations?) |
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> > > |
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> > > all technical support-related issues |
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> > > |
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> > > Ok, not that it changes much... :-) |
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> > |
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> > Noooo! It changes EVERYTHING!! |
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> > |
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> > "Issue" is word to describe an individual periodical in a series of |
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> > publications, and is a weasel-word when it's used as a synonym for |
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> > "problem". |
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> |
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> You are argueing about the English translation of a Spanish word, done |
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> by someone that most probably isn't a certified translator. The word |
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> at issue (please excuse the pun) isn't "issues" but the Spanish |
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> word "temas" - and I doubt it can be described as a weasel-word in |
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> this context. |
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Depending on the particular discipline context "issue" can also mean a risk |
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that has now been realised/manifested; the familiar "oh sh*t!" moment, e.g. |
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when you realised that rm -Rf / was not what you meant to have entered . . . |
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before that moment you had a risk, afterwards an "issue". |
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For the avoidance of doubt I suggest that we check what ISO 9001 defines the |
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term "issue" as. ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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