From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 6 4: 6:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A305C37B405 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g36C69S6002408; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:06:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.za) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with UUCP id g36C69XG002407; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:06:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g36C2aPL036777; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:02:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.za) Message-Id: <200204061202.g36C2aPL036777@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mark Murray , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize References: <3CAEE006.F36598B1@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3CAEE006.F36598B1@mindspring.com> ; from Terry Lambert "Sat, 06 Apr 2002 03:46:14 -0800." Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 13:02:36 +0100 From: Mark Murray 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 > If they distinguished "use" and "utilization" of the code, > then it would be much clearer, IMO. > > Maybe it's just because I'm a native English speaker, and > most of the people who argue that "use" and "utilize" are > "the same" are not... if they're synonyms to the rest of > the world, then I think that it needs to excplicitly and > seperately identify which "use" is being talked about where. "I will use it" == "I will utilise it". "It has no use" == "It has no utility". "Use/use/use" and "utilize/utility/utilization" are exact synonyms with different conventional uses. BTW - I am a native English speaker too. My English is "Colonial English", very close to British English. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message