From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, 14358@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14358: Option to use GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 23:52:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1miqHG-0006Er-LZ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnGcC93LqQKMf-Z7tf6azOOEn3iYvz8pKCE_+ff=Brcmg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 2 Nov 2021 20:54:41 -0700)
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> > Could you explain the significance of the quotation marks?
> It was intended as a way of saying "we get it for free" (i.e. with no
> effort) but realizing that at the end of the day we will still have to
> work for it.
> Sorry if my way of formulating this was unclear.
The meaning that I guessed was totally different.
That way of expressing a meaning is similar to
sarcasm: it states what you don't mean, not what you do mean.
In general, negative communication isn't clear, so I suggest
carefully avoiding.
If you had said, "as a bonus, we will get advantages X, Y and Z,"
it would have been fully clear.
The word "free" is a special pitfall. I've taught myself _never_ to
use the word "free" except to refer to freedom. If I mean "at no
cost", I say it without "free". I am just as careful about this when
I describes someone else's views as when I state my own.
In a quotation, I replace "free" with "[gratis]"; that means "perse
said something that meant 'gratis'". The square brackets are a
scholarly convention to state that one has emended a quotation.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-07 7:12 bug#14358: Option to use GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick Glenn Morris
2017-12-04 3:03 ` Glenn Morris
2021-10-30 16:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-03 3:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-03 3:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-05 3:52 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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