Sven Grüner wrote: > I agree with you that some terms in this process might not be optimal, > same applies to depricated. But as a non-native speaker I never thought > about that and just took these words for what they mean in this context. > > On the other hand I still see that the word approve fits in here quiet > well. The question is what, how and why someone approves something. In > our context I (when voting) approve by the authority of my own opinion > that the tagging in question is making sense. That's all to it. > > I consider it obvious that I'm casting my vote NOT on behalf of OSMF or > some other superhuman instance somewhere out there but just on the > authority any human has from it's birth on, his own opinion. > I also consider it obvious that nobody has any authourity or even power > about which tags a mapper may enter, regardless of what he writes in our > wiki or elsewhere. > > And after a quick glance at http://dict.leo.org/?search=approve I don't > even think 'approve' is such a strong word at all. But when you're more > comfortable with 'agree' we should consider that.
I am a native speaker, and this entire post reflects my opinion as well. I am particularly confused about the strong negative reaction to "deprecated". A lot of people seem to take it as "forbidden to use ever" or something like that, which seems weird to me. -Alex Mauer "hawke" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
