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From: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: "Wincent Colaiuta" <win@wincent.com>,
	"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org>,
	"René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>,
	"Junio Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:24:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471250BC.7070307@trolltech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522E90CF-FC15-472F-B0A8-91C310CAF9BF@wincent.com>

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Wincent Colaiuta said the following on 14.10.2007 18:35:
> El 14/10/2007, a las 18:25, David Kastrup escribió:
>> René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
>> 
>>> Christian Couder schrieb:
>>>> I choosed "dunno" because that was what Dscho suggested in
>>>> this thread:
>>>> 
>>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53584/
>>>>  focus=53595
>>>> 
>>>> It seems to me short and understandable at the same time.
>>>> 
>>>> More meaningfull would be "untestable" or "cannottest" or 
>>>> "canttest" but it's much longer, while "good" and "bad" are
>>>> short.
>>> Ugly?  Neutral?
>> "Ugly" has a certain charm to it but would probably not translate
>>  well.  "Limbo" would be another such candidate, probably with
>> better translatability.  But while some of those have some geeky
>> appeal, I really think something reasonably plain like
>> "undecided" would be better in the long run.
> 
> "undecided" sounds good to me. It should be clear to non-native 
> speakers of English (at least, clearer than "dunno").

What about just "unknown"?

-- 
.marius


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-14 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-14 12:28 [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno Christian Couder
2007-10-14 12:43 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-14 12:59   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-14 13:00   ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 15:09     ` Christian Couder
2007-10-14 15:09       ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 15:14         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-14 16:13       ` René Scharfe
2007-10-14 16:25         ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 16:35           ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-14 17:24             ` Marius Storm-Olsen [this message]
2007-10-14 17:48               ` David Kastrup
2007-10-15  6:04                 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-10-15  6:15                   ` David Symonds
2007-10-15  7:02                     ` Johan Herland
2007-10-15  9:31                       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-15 11:53                         ` David Symonds
2007-10-15 20:33                           ` Geert Bosch
2007-10-15 20:47                             ` David Kastrup
2007-10-16  6:07                               ` David Symonds
2007-10-16  6:17                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 16:10                                   ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-10-17 16:13                                     ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 16:17                                     ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-17 19:23                                       ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-17 22:59                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 23:46                                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 23:59                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18  1:24                                   ` David Symonds
     [not found]                                 ` <200710190449.49477.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
2007-10-19  2:49                                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-16  3:41                     ` Christian Couder
2007-10-15  8:25                   ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 17:25       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-14 16:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17  7:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-17 18:10   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 23:36     ` Christian Couder

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