From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 21 4:32:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (chiark.greenend.org.uk [212.135.138.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488CF37B410 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 04:32:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by chiark.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 17A7sc-0000EV-00 (Debian); Tue, 21 May 2002 12:32:38 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:32:38 +0100 From: Tony Finch To: Brad Knowles Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: email vs. e-mail, was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020521123238.B31528@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:18:58AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:18:58AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > > Indeed, for precisely this reason, I recommend that we *avoid* > the usage recommended by Knuth. It's one thing to adopt a word from > another language and to use it in much the same sense, it's quite > another to adopt a word with the same spelling (and perhaps > pronunciation), but with quite a different meaning -- especially when > you are cognizant of the contrary meaning in the other language(s). People should not expect words to have unique meanings, especially in English which has some words with multiple contradictory meanings. (cf. "cleave") Tony. -- f.a.n.finch http://dotat.at/ PORTLAND: SOUTHEAST VEERING SOUTH 6 OR 7, INCREASING GALE 8 FOR A TIME. RAIN THEN SHOWERS. GOOD OCCASIONALLY MODERATE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message