Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> writes: > On 05/30/2012 01:12 AM, Enrico Zini wrote:
>> It may take 20 minutes or so for the new password to percolate > Is this the Italian inside you, who pushes to use the word "percolate" ? > :) First time I read it in such context... In this context, it's a common idiom in American English (at least in my dialect; idioms can be very regional). It does a good job of conveying the slow seeping of data through a complex system. :) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
