On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:44 -0400, Joe Attardi wrote: > Andy Spitzer wrote: > > Because, as you rightly mention, the correct phrase is "kick out", not > > "kick". > > The former does not hurt physically as much as the latter. Evict is a > > single > > word that means "kick out". So I would like to see either "kick out" OR > > "evict" > > but NOT "kick". > I disagree - "kick" alone is used to mean the same thing in some contexts. > > I hate to use IRC as an example, but an op would /kick someone and the > message would be "foobar was kicked from #sipx". > > Also in pretty much any multiplayer game, if you misbehave (use foul > language, teamkill, etc.), you get a message that you have been "kicked > from the server"
I think that if someone wants to produce a language pack for IRC geeks or gamers, that would be an appropriate place to use 'kick'. I'm sure that such a language pack would be very colorful (and that I'd understand all of it), but I agree with Woof that the standard version should use less colloquial terminology. I like 'Remove'. I also prefer 'Exclude/Include'. I think Joe's point about 'Isolate' not being accurate is well taken, but I think that the fix is to make the operation really to exclude them - both as a speaker and as a listener. It doesn't make sense to have some be heard but they cannot hear. > I'm obviously being a bit facetious with that last one, but the point > is > - is it more important to be dictionary-correct or concise and easy > to > understand? It's most important that we project the image of a professionally-produced product. The people who select phone systems are still _mostly_ not clued in to open source or the culture it comes from; we don't want to alienate them any more than we need to with lingo they don't use themselves. -- Scott Lawrence tel:+1.781.229.0533;ext=162 or sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sipXecs project coordinator - SIPfoundry http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipXecs CTO, Voice Solutions - Bluesocket Inc. http://www.bluesocket.com/ http://www.pingtel.com/ _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev
