Christian PERRIER wrote:
>> Description: next generation IRC daemon
>
> Hmmmm. I take this really because I don't find anything else but,
> really, "next generation foo", capitalized or not, really sounds
> ridiculous.
>
> "second" generation, maybe? :-)
"New Generation" might be more justifiable for this case, and slightly
less of a cliché, but the homepage is clear about it being Next Gen.
Meanwhile in East Asian English "NG" is widely used as an abbreviation
of "no good"...
>> "The ngircd daemon" avoids leading lowercase, but at the cost of a
>> minor outbreak of PIN-numberism.
>
> I don't understand what you mean here, but I take your word on this..:)
"PIN" stands for "Personal Identification Number", so it's frequently
argued that "PIN number" is wrong (though it doesn't stop people
saying it). Likewise ATM machines, SIM modules, USB bus devices, the
CGI interface, and the ngIRCd daemon.
>> This package provides an Internet Relat Chat server for small or private
>> networks. It does not provide advanced features such as services, but it
>> is simple to configure and can cope with dynamic IP addresses. It is
>> written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd.
>>
>> (I didn't know what "services" meant, but my first guess was things
>> like NickServ, and that turns out to be right, so fair enough.)
>
> oh, this is *this*?
>
> Maybe "advanced features such as Nickserv-like services"?
NickServ's canonically InterCapped, and it's hard to find a natural
way of phrasing the sentence once you add it in. Maybe:
This package provides an Internet Relat Chat server for small or private
networks. It lacks some advanced features (including services such as
NickServ) but it is simple to configure and can cope with dynamic IP
addresses. It is written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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