On 2011-01-12, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Grant Edwards did opine thusly:
>> On 2011-01-12, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> 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 No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished.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?
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