Hi, On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 05:25:29PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Am Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 10:27:11AM +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 05:29:57PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > -The \fB\-\-system\fP option adds the same functionality as for users, > > > -respectively. > > > +The \fB\-\-system\fP option adds the same functionality as for users. > > > > Can you give motivation for this change? I think that respectively is > > good here. > > I'm not a native speaker, so I might be wrong. For me, the term > respectively makes only sense when having two concepts/terms in one > sentence. > > Cars and bikes have wheels, four respectively two. > Cars and bikes have wheels, four and two, respectively.
I am not a native speaker as well, but the second variant is what I would write. Respectively in those two places has distinct meanings, as explained in https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Respectively-in-a-Sentence > It works like the German „bzw.“. Not quite. It is more like "entsprechend" if used in the last part of a sentence. That word is used inflationary in germen technical docs, but in the place it would actually be correct. We might ask native speakers here, if you want to. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
