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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: "Various Services" -> "Miscellaneous Services"
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:57:32 +0200
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>      John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> skribis:
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      > * doc/guix.texi (Services): "Various" -> "Miscellaneous"
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      How does the meaning of these two words differ?  (I???m not a native
>      speaker, so I???m curious.)
>
> It is a subtle nuance.
>
> What I understand from "Various Services" is "A group of services which I=
 chose arbitrarily".
> Wheras "Miscellaneous Services" means to me: "Services which don't fit in=
to any of the
> hitherto mentioned categories".
>
> Perhaps there is no formal difference, but "various" sounds odd to me in =
that context.
> I think that "miscellaneous" is more common in such use cases.

I see.  Go for it!

Thanks everyone!  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.