On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:59:35PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Hmmm, as I understood the text you linked this usage is actually > correct, as "resp." means "each separately in the order mentioned", > which is precisely what is meant here. The diff doesn't show it, but > this section is about both --since= and --until, hence we explain the > meaning of --since= first, and then of --until=, and link this with > "resp.". > > So, now I am really confused, what's really right and wrong here? ;-) >
The trouble is "resp." isn't used in English, ever. Your software is the only place I've run across it, and I had no idea what you were trying to say. The link I gave shows that other German speakers make the same error, so it seems to be a common mis-translation. The word "respectively" is never abbreviated and, as far as I can think, only used at the end of a (implied) sequence of two lists. You can see some places in the diff where I switched it to use the whole word correctly. The following examples are wrong, and I would have no idea what they meant without the blog I linked: "Increase, resp. decrease refresh delay" "Increase, respectively decrease the refresh delay" Switching "resp." with "or" makes it make sense: "Increase or decrease refresh delay" And you could go further and use "respectively" to explicitly point out the relationship between two lists: "+, -: Increase or decrease refresh delay, respectively" But it is never "resp." and it never replaces the "or". Hope this clears up what I meant :) Andrew _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
