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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: Inconsistency in meaning of "user options"
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:29:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICGECEDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439E147E.3070700@student.lu.se>

    > Something that
    > is "custom" (e.g. a "custom motorcycle") is something that _has been_
    > customized. The term to use for customizable is "customizable", not
    > "custom".

    Oh thanks, it is a bit hard with a foreign language. I would expect an
    option that had been changed to be called "customized" perhaps, but not
    "custom".

"Customized" is correct; so is "custom". "Custom" is often used
colloquially, especially for hobby things (cars, bikes...).

    I suppose "Custom option" would mean one of those
    that you use to change the behaviour of Custom with.

I've been looking for those options! So much to change...

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-13  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-12 16:18 Inconsistency in meaning of "user options" Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-12 22:23 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-12 23:33   ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-13  0:02     ` Drew Adams
2005-12-13  0:23       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-13  0:29         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2005-12-13 23:33         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-13 23:32   ` Richard M. Stallman

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