On 2020-04-29 at 14:10, Dan Ritter wrote: > Daniel Barclay wrote: > >> Sven Hartge wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> As Russ noted in >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/04/msg00103.html in >>> 3) "... more comfortable with forums than with email. [...]" ... >> >> How do people not understand that the word "forum" does not exclude >> e-mail or even non-digital communication (that "forum" does not >> mean only a web-based forum)? >> >> (It's like thinking "turf" means "artificial turf"--as did some >> local newscasters who reported that some schools were changing >> their athletic fields from turf back to grass. Huh?) > > Yes, but you need to recognize that people morph words badly even as > you refuse to warp their meanings yourself. A longstanding principle of good software design: "be conservative in what you emit, and liberal in what you consume". In some such set of words or another. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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