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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: "Various Services" -> "Miscellaneous Services"
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:53:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160913175323.GB32237@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160913174233.GB25835@jocasta.intra>

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On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 07:42:33PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:10:44PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>      On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 02:18:20PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
>      > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>      >      John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> skribis:
>      >      
>      >      > * doc/guix.texi (Services): "Various" -> "Miscellaneous"
>      >      
>      >      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 into 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 don't find this use of "various" to be confusing or strange, but
>      "miscellaneous" is more idiomatic in this context.
> 
> There is no idiom involved. 

I just meant that it sounds more "natural" to a native speaker of the
language.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-13 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-10 19:18 [PATCH 1/2] doc: "Various Services" -> "Miscellaneous Services" John Darrington
2016-09-10 19:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add GSSD and Pipefs services John Darrington
2016-09-13 11:45   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-13 13:53     ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add GSSD and Pipefs services (Usage of @var) John Darrington
2016-09-14 14:42       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-21 18:29         ` John Darrington
2016-09-24  3:03           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-15  5:06     ` "filesystem" vs. "file system" John Darrington
2016-09-15 20:27       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-25  8:21     ` [PATCH] gnu: Add NFS related services John Darrington
2016-09-30 12:02       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-30 14:35         ` John Darrington
2016-10-06  2:08         ` [PATCH (3)] gnu: Add NFS related services (moved idmap.conf out of /etc, added texinfo markup to documentation, s/dir/directory) John Darrington
2016-10-06 19:49           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-08 10:19             ` John Darrington
2016-10-09  5:47             ` John Darrington
2016-10-11  6:37             ` [PATCH (4)] gnu: Add NFS related services. (minor improvements to documentation; Added test to ensure that pipefs mount/umount succeeded() John Darrington
2016-10-11 20:30               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-13 11:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: "Various Services" -> "Miscellaneous Services" Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-13 12:18   ` John Darrington
2016-09-13 12:31     ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-09-13 17:10     ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-13 17:42       ` John Darrington
2016-09-13 17:53         ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-09-13 21:57     ` Ludovic Courtès

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