Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 13:02:36 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <200204061202.g36C2aPL036777@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <3CAEE006.F36598B1@mindspring.com> ; from Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> "Sat, 06 Apr 2002 03:46:14 -0800." References: <3CAEE006.F36598B1@mindspring.com>
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> If they distinguished "use" and "utilization" of the code, > then it would be much clearer, IMO. > > Maybe it's just because I'm a native English speaker, and > most of the people who argue that "use" and "utilize" are > "the same" are not... if they're synonyms to the rest of > the world, then I think that it needs to excplicitly and > seperately identify which "use" is being talked about where. "I will use it" == "I will utilise it". "It has no use" == "It has no utility". "Use/use/use" and "utilize/utility/utilization" are exact synonyms with different conventional uses. BTW - I am a native English speaker too. My English is "Colonial English", very close to British English. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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