Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To bisect or to halve?

2015-02-05 Thread Carsten Koch
Hi Klaus, On 02/05/15 16:56, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: The question now is: is bisect the right word here, which a native English speaker would use? Or should it rather be halve? Or something completely different? IMHO all these fancy words are a bit overblown. I am not a native

[vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To bisect or to halve?

2015-02-05 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
The next stable version of VDR (to be released on February 19) will contain the functionality from the binary skip patch (by Rolf Ahrenberg and Helmut Auer). Since most VDR users probably won't understand what the word binary means in that context, we're looking for a better wording for the setup

Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To bisect or to halve?

2015-02-05 Thread VDR User
The question now is: is bisect the right word here, which a native English speaker would use? Or should it rather be halve? Or something completely different? Bisect isn't correct. Bisecting means to cut something into 2 parts. Using halve doesn't make sense. Binary doesn't either for that