On 26 Apr 2008 13:17:11 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "MS" == Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > MS> There is no such implication. > > My apologies. Perhaps it's just the language barrier. FYI, when you > use the phrase "in the past", many English speakers will read an > implication that the behavior has changed. Okay. Reading too much between the lines/words can change the meaning. I understand that one can interpret a lot into it. "Do you know the shortest way to Tower Bridge?" -- "[When I was in England] In the past, I would have taken a cab. *But* nowadays it's faster to take a bus." Without the "But..." sentence, what would the first sentence imply? There are other phrases that are much more explicit, ranging from "formerly" and "previously" to the very clear: "FESCo _used to_ do conflict resolving". I would have chosen such a phrase if I knew that things are different nowadays. What I wanted to point out with the initial comment is that the old FESCO, which I was more familiar with, would have looked into such issues. There is only a different implication, and that is that someone in the committee either gets informed about the issues or notices a discussion on one of the prominent communication channels. Hence my question whether the problems "have been discussed elsewhere before" (i.e. not just in this thread). > The same goes for phrases > like "until now", which I believe have quite different connotations on > other languages. "Until now" is an explicit comparison of past and present, because it refers to a time-span that ends "now". Something during that time now is different. "In the past" or "in former times" refers to an imprecise/unspecific period of time somewhere in history. > Sorry for lecturing, but I figured you might want to understand how I > read your message. Never mind. I don't mind corrections/hints at all. -- Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 loadavg: 1.63 1.74 1.81 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
