From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 8 3:12:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ACA337B41C for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 03:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 77756 invoked by uid 100); 8 Apr 2002 10:12:14 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15537.27900.657935.755062@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 05:12:12 -0500 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Mark Murray , Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize In-Reply-To: <20020408112409.A90467@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3CAEE006.F36598B1@mindspring.com> <200204061202.g36C2aPL036777@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20020408112409.A90467@lpt.ens.fr> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) 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 In <20020408112409.A90467@lpt.ens.fr>, Rahul Siddharthan typed: > Mark Murray said on Apr 6, 2002 at 13:02:36: > > BTW - I am a native English speaker too. My English is "Colonial > > English", very close to British English. > And I learned English in India, it's basically British English too -- > at least in its "formal" version; the slang is very different. > > Terry, on the other hand, is a native speaker of American which is not > really English :) More accurately, none of the American dialects are really English. I've encountered at least four version of the third person plural in the US. > So I thought it was indeed possible that Americans mean something > different by "utilize" and "use". But Merriam-Webster says otherwise. I agree with that. But there may be an American dialect for which it's not true. In particlar, they may have a legal meaning totally different from any meaning in common use. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message