From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MT2Ap-0007MV-2u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:21:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65D8DE02D8; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:21:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40959E02D8 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:21:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from anaconda.krait.us (74-93-222-225-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [74.93.222.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9485648E1 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:21:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:21:21 +0000 From: Ferris McCormick To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Minor corrections Message-ID: <20090720232121.5a487a3b@anaconda.krait.us> In-Reply-To: <20090721004202.1af60b56@gentoo.org> References: <20090526075232.6cf83ad3@gentoo.org> <20090603205346.7c93275b@snowcone> <20090630095321.3fdbfb3e@gentoo.org> <19017.50894.487691.397944@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20090709124211.7f6e5a77@gentoo.org> <20090710104452.289c86df@snowmobile> <20090721004202.1af60b56@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/8ZNqklYv2DOeRmGPhatw4Ji"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 43504bc8-c8be-4798-8ee4-9fb19492854b X-Archives-Hash: 7bebc67a7f5ad7adb96b1f862f4cd68e --Sig_/8ZNqklYv2DOeRmGPhatw4Ji Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:42:02 +0200 Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Ciaran McCreesh : >=20 > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:42:11 +0200 > > Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > Ulrich Mueller : > > > > >>>>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > >=20 > > > > > "ill defined" sounds not nice(TM) to me, so I still vote for a > > > > > different wording, not for the intention. "volatile" seemed > > > > > suitable to me but I may be convinced to a different vocabulary. > > > >=20 > > > > How about "indeterminate"? Or pick another synonym from this list: > > > > > > >=20 > > > I went with indeterminate. > >=20 > > I've reverted this. Your change was grammatically incorrect and wasn't > > what had been discussed on this list, and you've still not explained > > why 'ill-defined' is in any way hostile. >=20 > This seems to be a cultural misunderstanding. In my ears (and ulm's > initially, we have the same mother tongue) "ill-defined" sounds hostile, > though it seems, that this is not true for native speakers of English. >=20 > V-Li >=20 >=20 In English, "ill-defined" is not at all hostile. I'd say it was the opposite of "well defined", but "well defined" is a mathematical term and is specialized. > --=20 > Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project > , #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode >=20 > Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) --Sig_/8ZNqklYv2DOeRmGPhatw4Ji Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpk+/oACgkQQa6M3+I///eE4wCg1ghWGALUf72OrYKYkvnuJwaT sUIAoJiSTsF8hMu1EcjgdPWMiWlyZjlg =nkiQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/8ZNqklYv2DOeRmGPhatw4Ji--