Re: GnuTLS in Debian
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- Subject: Re: GnuTLS in Debian
- From: Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 19:26:53 +0100
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Russ Allbery schrieb:
> "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org> writes:
>> Could you please stop using that word "idiosyncratic".
>
> I believe idiosyncratic is exactly the correct term:
>
> idiosyncratic
> adj 1: peculiar to the individual; "we all have our own
> idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly
> idiosyncratic style of painting"
>
> and therefore decline to stop using it.
At least for the non-native speaker of English "idiosyncratic" may
rhyme very unfortunately with "idiotic"; that may be Bernhard's point.
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