Re: bits from the NM process: advocacy, no more AM reports, AMs needed
Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> writes:
> On 05/30/2012 01:12 AM, Enrico Zini wrote:
>> It may take 20 minutes or so for the new password to percolate
> Is this the Italian inside you, who pushes to use the word "percolate" ?
> :) First time I read it in such context...
In this context, it's a common idiom in American English (at least in my
dialect; idioms can be very regional). It does a good job of conveying
the slow seeping of data through a complex system. :)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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