Re: correct English usage

[Indulekha <indulekha@theunworthy.com>]

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> On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Paul E Condon wrote:
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>>>   As far as I know, Squeeze is posterior to Lenny, and the recommended
>>                                 ^^^^^^^^^
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>> This is the wrong word in English to describe the relation between
>> Squeeze and Lenny. Maybe OK in some other European language, but not
>> in English.
>> . . 
>> For named releases of software and to express a relationship in time,
>> posterior is the wrong word in English.
>>
>> Since the thread seemed mainly about correct English usage, I thought
>> it would be helpful to point this out before the word got incorporated
>> into Debian documentation.
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>    I agree that it is important to have a correct English usage, at least in
>    the documention, and that I am less qualified than you in that field.
>    Still, I am really puzzled by what I found in several dictionnaries.
>    I admit that most of the translation tools found on Internet are
>    not very reliable, but I thought that it was not the case for dictionnaries.
>    Here are some results I got for the "posterior" entry:
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> Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
>      1 chiefly Anatomy further back in position . . .
>      2 Medicine . . .
>      3 formal coming after in time or order; later.
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> WordReference English Thesaurus © 2012
>      Sense: Subsequent, succeeding, next, following
>      Sense: Behind, at the rear, dorsal, in back o,  back
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> Collinsdictionary.com
>      1. situated at the back of or behind something
>      2. coming after or following another in a series
>      3. coming after in time
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> Are all these distionnaries wrong?
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> -- 
> Pierre Frenkiel
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There is nothing wrong with your English or those definitions, 
they're just obscure and have fallen out of popular usage. I've 
frequently observed that people for whom English is a second 
language are more literate that the average American. 

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