On Mon, 15.10.12 11:14, Andrew Eikum ([email protected]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:59:35PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Hmmm, as I understood the text you linked this usage is actually > > correct, as "resp." means "each separately in the order mentioned", > > which is precisely what is meant here. The diff doesn't show it, but > > this section is about both --since= and --until, hence we explain the > > meaning of --since= first, and then of --until=, and link this with > > "resp.". > > > > So, now I am really confused, what's really right and wrong here? ;-) > > > > The trouble is "resp." isn't used in English, ever. Your software is > the only place I've run across it, and I had no idea what you were > trying to say. The link I gave shows that other German speakers make > the same error, so it seems to be a common mis-translation. > > The word "respectively" is never abbreviated and, as far as I can > think, only used at the end of a (implied) sequence of two lists. You > can see some places in the diff where I switched it to use the whole > word correctly. > > The following examples are wrong, and I would have no idea what they > meant without the blog I linked: > "Increase, resp. decrease refresh delay" > "Increase, respectively decrease the refresh delay" > > Switching "resp." with "or" makes it make sense: > "Increase or decrease refresh delay" > > And you could go further and use "respectively" to explicitly point > out the relationship between two lists: > "+, -: Increase or decrease refresh delay, respectively" > > But it is never "resp." and it never replaces the "or". > > Hope this clears up what I meant :)
Ah, OK. Makes sense now. I'd be happy to merge a patch: - that replaces the cases where "resp." is entirely wrong by "or". - and that replaces "resp." where there is a list of strings/items/directives/words first by "respectively" at the end of the sentence. Does that make sense to you? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
