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Branden Robinson" To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: Alexander Ofitserov , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, dutyrok@altlinux.org, kovalev@altlinux.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete_module.2: Update man to actual syscall behaviour Message-ID: <20240220163611.4hfyds2jqfegjacg@illithid> References: <20240220092144.140251-1-oficerovas@altlinux.org> <20240220132015.pjqlf66odcgqdtqv@illithid> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="slwd5zjzkc54itxu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --slwd5zjzkc54itxu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Alex, At 2024-02-20T16:24:01+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > [Off-topic; just language curiosity; feel free to ignore] [no worries] > That's also taught in Spanish high school. The Spanish word is > "actual" too, which means current. Oy vey. I've got more training in Spanish than any other non-English language, and never hit that one. I raised this point because it was (mis-)used repeatedly in groff documentation and I had to clean it up. It was then that I learned that this specific solecism is frequent in technical writing where there is multinational collaboration. > See some `dict actual` entries: >=20 > From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide= ]: >=20 > Actual \Ac"tu*al\ (#; 135), a. [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. > actualis, fr. agere to do, act.] > ... > =20 > 3. In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the > actual situation of the country. > [1913 Webster] >=20 > and >=20 > From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: >=20 > actual > adj > ... > 5: being or existing at the present moment; "the ship's actual > position is 22 miles due south of Key West" >=20 > Some other dictionaries don't acknowledge this meaning, and claim it's > a mistake. Do you know who is right about it? I fear some dictionaries > might be ahistorically removing that meaning. Even if that meaning > wasn't the main one, it probably was correct some time in the future. > I'd like to see some investigation showing history of that meaning > before claiming it's wrong. I rather call out the Cambridge dictionary > and others as being wrong. I'm not sufficiently credentialed to argue with published dictionaries, but I will offer that the use of "present" in these definitions has to be understood in context, and note should be take of the one we're using here. When discussing software, implementations sometimes don't match specifications--documented behavior may not be reflected in code. So when we encounter the phrase "in the actual version", one can infer that a description is being offered in contrast to some non-actual version; perhaps some change of intention occurred in the passage from design document or bug report to the code as written. But, in my experience, most of the time when we see "in the actual version", all the (typically non-native) speaker is trying to impart is a temporal statement about the present (or near-present) situation, not drawing a contrast between intentions elsewhere document and actuality. Returning to your examples: > 3. In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the > actual situation of the country. Contrast: "The Central Committee of the Communist Party reported that per capita intake of nutritional calories in Ukraine in 1933 was 13% higher than in England." If a historian were to offer some perspective on that claim, their use of the word "actual" would be contrasting reality with assertion more strongly than it would be nailing down a temporal datum. Similarly: > 5: being or existing at the present moment; "the ship's actual > position is 22 miles due south of Key West" "The ship's reported position was 5 miles southwest of Bah=EDa de los Cochinos." The contrast between "reported" and "actual" here is a more significant factor than "at the present moment". Given enough time, a ship could move from one location to the other, just as an API can change over time; but when we use "actual", our emphasis is not on temporal matters even though we often need some temporal information to decide the truth of a claim. Does this clarify? For more along these lines, I highly recommend Jeremy Gardner's document "Misused English words and expressions in EU Publications". https://www.eca.europa.eu/other%20publications/en_terminology_publication/e= n_terminology_publication.pdf Regards, Branden --slwd5zjzkc54itxu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEh3PWHWjjDgcrENwa0Z6cfXEmbc4FAmXU1PAACgkQ0Z6cfXEm bc5NBhAAgQdj3wz9Bz4XHwt3Pr8KjKtka0AP3o0yUWT+4A3o6MFJtrwqoN9zmsSs 4lhMq+ASP4zbpWxPHIqCJWiihdTCqcXK2M6VfpgZ98jLdFhgxRs1G+plegESX53i 5pSCFIVBjLoMfCwko7LJHl2cU4Mw7NqLMN1/bpjQWiyNLh3/dtpFqrAY73blpweS FxueOzbXIF6nX53kPsvIaxpCIIvhfz97XpQWIi8ox23R3QGsO4sEWMfEh0njNJYq XqhAU4j9z74M7b0W6BR4PDbjP53rNQu3VaDYGw9WdbLQ1j1IY6QLqpoMDx4NEUnb x/oV70Q9A8YeXwW3xVZM33zjK2gyosIMCAJyLCxpf++dfORA16B8HddTcI6BDDSA 2lTpcmxYakR0Nvq8veZs7cKT/IVZi2uyA4Lg6Vp+E3mq/o2J11VGnmWzwWGtt/cw ky75J2aOO6vxjFKpyhDH/rAEF8fAs2AellXBSyida6VBZWk8P63oTXZAgtm9Xkdd eF22uZox3KA8xQjLOwdC6eyWab8vU2rR5gZb9Fhrlt/5BvqKC/yhFJDPzc12PeAp LbPwuX0+EoXKHxnxisiNd+f23S7fdyCjwLrur0TrOjhc6sbONWTi0s+s5psK1dXZ brm9G/44trZAk74GF+kJNkzrLbqJ98FKVeYl9yHYGUuNjxuufRQ= =EKvs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --slwd5zjzkc54itxu--