On approximately 10/10/2009 9:01 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Stephen J. Turnbull:
Glenn Linderman writes:
> (I switched conformant to compliant,
Conformant is in common use. You might be more comfortable with
conforming.
Richard Stallman points out that you comply with the law, but you
conform to a standard. I think it's useful to make that semantic
distinction, cf. RFC 2119 MUST vs. SHOULD or MAY.
conformant is not in the dictionaries I've consulted. Conforming is
mostly a verb, not an adjective.
Richard Stallman is a great programmer, but conformable and compliant
are synonyms. I don't like the word conformable, but if you appreciate
his distinction, then we should use the word conformable even though I
don't like it. But we shouldn't use the letter sequence conformant,
because although I know what you mean by it, it appears not to be a
word, and English is hard enough for ESL folks when they can find the
words in the dictionary.
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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