Post #2598432
2021-04-02 07:20 UTC
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@eloquence@social.coop 2021-04-02 07:52
@otyugh@pouet.chapril.org I certainly agree that not being an ass about things is always a good start. ;-) That's primarily what I mean with "pedantry" -- the tendency to immediately "correct", rather than seek (or build) common ground.
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@LuigiDev@mastodon.lol 2022-12-27 12:55
@otyugh@pouet.chapril.org @eloquence@social.coop even if terminology may be important, GNU/Linux offers not so many relevant info for the end user anyway. It's only useful for programmers (and mid/low level ones) who wants to know the ABI is GNU's one. For end users the name of the distro itself conveys more info. Or the package manager used. Or the DE...
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@berkes@bitcoinhackers.org 2022-12-28 11:12
@otyugh@pouet.chapril.org @eloquence@social.coop using the correct words, is, indeed, important. It's crucial for communication. But, communication is a group task. The 'best' term, therefore, depends on the humans involved. Finding proper terminology (ubiquitous language?) a community effort. Ongoing and dynamic. Hence, a sentence like "or as I've recently taken to calling it" almost by definition an example of bad communication. There's no "I" that can "take to calling" anything.