Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - final patch
- To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
- Cc: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>, Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>, Debian L10n English <debian-l10n-english@lists.debian.org>, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - final patch
- From: Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 19:50:07 +0100
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>> I will move back to "installation media" and to Justins review from
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/09/msg00082.html
>
> But "media" is a plural word, it should be "medium". It's a Latin word.
Like "agenda"? It doesn't matter whether it was plural in Latin; it
only matters how it behaves in modern English. But as it happens, the
patch doesn't use "media" to refer to a singular CD - it uses "some
media" and "an item of media", the way English-speakers normally do.
(There's a different sense of "media" that *is* colloquially used as a
singular: "the Meejuh is full of fake news". But that has nothing to
do with CDs.)
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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