[ as a non-native speaker ]
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 08:53:12PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, 2016-08-14, 11:35:
> > > * Actualize debian/watch.
> >
> > Do you mean that you added a debian/watch file in this version, that was
> > previously not present?
>
> In many European languages, including German[0], "actualize" has a false
> friend that means "update". I guess that's what Andreas wanted to say. :)
I *believe* that a correct reading of "actualize" is "to make actual" or
"to make true". That can be interpreted as the action of replacing some
not reference not real/true/actual anymore with something more
current¹/actual/real/true.
Surely this is not a thought I'd like to need to make when reading a
changelog though...
¹ at least in Italian "currently" *can*² be translated to "attualmente"
which is dangerously similar to "actually" ;)
² "can" as there is also a "correntemente" which can be consider more
precise, and I prefer using since when I learned what "actually"
means.
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