On 11/21/06, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 11:35 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > I have a suggestion, David. Stop referring to our active and appreciated > volunteers as package monkeys. If you cannot refer to them respectfully > in public then do not do it at all. It's not a term of disrespect. It's a term which I use to refer to myself as well in certain circumstances.
Your definition of dis-respect is not the same as the rest of the people in this conversation. A general rule of politeness seems to be that one can call oneself a disparaging name, but it is extremely im-polite to call someone else that name. EG if one sells fish, one can call oneself a fish-monger (or various other street terms on the East Side), calling someone else that is a sign of dis-respect (except in certain areas where it was all looked upon by all members of the conversation as being a sign of secret pride of 'membership'). In the context of this conversation, the term package-monkey is not seen as a source of pride by most people reading, and thus is parsed as an error by the other readers. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
