On 2011-01-12, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards did opine thusly: >> On 2011-01-12, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:33:02 +0000, Stroller wrote: >> >>> No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished. >> >> >> >> Boot to BTFS filesystems? >> > >> > Finished != complete >> >> Maybe not on the right hand side of the pond, but here in the US >> finished == complete. If you look in the Merriam-Webster dictionaly >> under "finished" both "completed" and "complete" are listed as >> synonyms. > > Dictionaries document current usage and current usage sucks. The > right hand side of the pond invented English so maybe you should call > your language "American", but we have dibs on English :-)
OK, I'll cite the OED: finished adjective (of an action, activity, or piece of work ) having been completed or ended. > Finished and complete and not the same, they are just similar. According to the OED they're the same. I checked both "us english" and "world english" versions. You and Humpty Dumpty are free to make up your own meanings, but doings so seems rather counter-productive if your goal is to actually communicate with others. > Complete is pretty much an absolute. Something is complete, it is done, > nothing more can be added, nothing can be removed. > > Finished is a lower grade of that, a part can be finished and the whole is > still incomplete. Citations? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Either CONFESS now or at we go to "PEOPLE'S COURT"!! gmail.com