David Virebayre <dav.vire+hask...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jon Fairbairn > <jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > >> [1] A pet peeve of mine is "x supports y" being used backwards (as in >> "our application supports windows Vista", which would only make sense if >> it were something like a system tool that stopped Vista crashing. > > (Not a native English speaker here) > > How would you say "x works well with y" ?
I think I would say "x works well with y". There's no reason to abuse "support" (which carries an implication of one thing being on top of another) for this. -- Jón Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2009-01-31) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe