Package: diction Version: 1.10~rc4-1 Severity: normal Hello. It seems silly for an engineer to be filing a bug about some program designed to make a person's grammar better (of which engineers probably need more help than others). However, I have had way more statistics than I should have, and if a person is writing a paper involving statistical concepts, very seldom should the word anticipate be a substitute for expect. In large part, it is because expect is being related "expectation", which has a reasonably precise, mathematical definition.
Maybe it is just statistical topics where this happens, but perhaps the comments about substituting anticipate for expect could be expanded to allow for statistics being wierd (or something). Or, maybe I am wrong. I just cannot remember the word anticipate being present very often in any textbook on Statistical Mechanics which I have read. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages diction depends on: ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries diction recommends no packages. diction suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
