[CentOS-docs] wiki contribution

Ned Slider

ned at unixmail.co.uk
Thu Jan 14 22:01:53 UTC 2010


As this thread is alive again...

On 11/30/2009 11:35 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>
>> Am 30.11.09 22:49, schrieb R P Herrold:
>
>>> I was considering 'axes' to refactor it along over the
>>> weekend
>
>> Please do consider "plain English" too, while doing so, as I have no
>> idea what you mean by what you wrote in your last sentence>:)
>
> hey -- I did 'highlight' the hard term, after all ;)
>
> Axes -- pl. of axis -- a collection of vectors of classification.
>

Axes -- pl. of axe -- a tool used to chop (traditionally wood) into 
smaller pieces.

As a native English speaker, I assumed you were metaphorically going to 
take an axe to the page and chop it up.

> Here a series of partitions of the Repositories page refactor
> problemspace, which I will use to carve it up into a more
> intelligible (and one hopes, more useful) taxonomy
>
> yes -- I really did think thru the problem (and many other
> tecnical matter problems) just that way. ;)
>
> -- Russ herrold

Again, I would reiterate Ralph's request for you to use plain English[1] 
when communitcating with this list, especially considering that it's a 
documentation list.

[1] http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/

Thanks



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