On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:32 PM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am reading CHANGES.txt:
>> ...
>>       and integrated with the C and C++ linking.   NB  This is only tested 
>> with
>>       D v2, D v1 is now deprecated.
>> ...
>>
>> What is NB? The most closest I can find in Wikipedia is
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene but my brain hurts
>> when I try to translate the exact meaning into my native
>> language.
>>
>> Can we try to be simple?
>
> NB does indeed mean "nota bene", which translates as "note well".
> It's pretty common in English, although it's from Latin.
> Other similar abbreviations are e.g. for "exempli gratia" and i.e. for
> "id est" as well as the very common etc. ("et cetera")  There are lots
> of these, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_abbreviations
> for more.
> (I usually write N.B. rather than NB for clarity; I'd accept a pull
> request to fix that. ;-) )

Ok. I thought that note is a boolean action. There is no thing like
"badly noted" - people either note or miss something, so how can
you "note well"? "Note and check twice that you've understood".

I'll replace it with just note then.
-- 
anatoly t.
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