From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: "Various Services" -> "Miscellaneous Services" Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:18:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20160913121819.GA22936@jocasta.intra> References: <1473535083-5326-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <87y42w6num.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjmfX-0004cq-Lk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:18:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjmfV-0006li-IH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:18:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y42w6num.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic Court??s Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: =20 > * doc/guix.texi (Services): "Various" -> "Miscellaneous" =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 c= hose arbitrarily". Wheras "Miscellaneous Services" means to me: "Services which don't fit into= any of the hitherto mentioned categories". Perhaps there is no formal difference, but "various" sounds odd to me in th= at context. I think that "miscellaneous" is more common in such use cases. J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlfX7osACgkQimdxnC3oJ7OynACfRtFotfZFzrzKtQbAFT70QY+N F9cAnjeG4tJ7WfTYIplFwjmZnASIt8GQ =swPw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--