Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/13/2012 7:34 AM, Michael Krämer wrote: > >> If you'd read what I was replying to, you'd see that I don't think > >> access=permit would be a valid change. > > Well, I in fact I did - being a non-native speaker I tried to > answer > > the question you've asked. > > What I asked is whether non-English speakers think permissive relates > to > needing a permit because they're more familiar with 'permit' than > 'permission'. >
Speaking as a native English-speaker, "permit" (either as a noun or as a verb) is far more common usage than the adjective "permissive". -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
