cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks chapter.sgml

[Derek Young]

Which basically proves that finding someone who knows English in a room full 
of programmers is like finding a coder chick under 150 pounds. They are out 
there, and should be appreciated.

I always joke with my friends that English is my 4th language, C, asm, java, 
and perl come first.

Derek

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 09:51 am, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Doug Barton <DougB at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > What's the purpose of this change? The words are basically synonyms, and
> > either is appropriate in context.
>
> "moot" has several meanings, and the "irrelevant" meaning is far down
> the list.  Closer to the top you find meanings such as (noun)
> "meeting" and (verb) "to raise an issue" and (adj) "currently being
> discussed" which are antonymous to "irrelevant".  Etymologically a
> moot is a formal meeting, the anglosaxon counterpart of the Norse
> Thing (viz. Tolkien's use of "Entmoot" for a meeting of Ent leaders)
> and the adjective form means "subject to discussion at a moot".
> Webster's 7th gives "open to question" and "subjected to discussion"
> as the primary meanings of the adjective "moot", and "deprived of
> practical significance" only as a secondary meaning.  The fact that
> you consider "moot" a synonym of "irrelevant" is simply a product of
> your cultural background, and other people with different cultural
> backgrounds will not understand what is meant.
>
> DES