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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Adding ThreadWeaver libraries to kdelibs
From:       Hans Meine <hans_meine () gmx ! net>
Date:       2006-09-08 8:15:15
Message-ID: 200609081015.16161.hans_meine () gmx ! net
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On Friday, 08. September 2006 10:00, Mirko Boehm wrote:
> What I want to prevent is to add one more Germanism to the KDE API. These
> things happen to often.

OTOH, native speakers are more tempted to use their whole vocabulary, whereas 
we need a simplified "international English" IMO.

> And "thread count" is definitly no good. It is a term used for something
> totally unrelated. We can only use it if the joke is intended.
> Hm. that may actually be funny. So why not?

/me had to look that one up and guesses that most other non-native speakers 
would have to, too.  So one would probably think this was unintentional.

Ciao, /  /
     /--/
    /  / ANS
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