Hello Bernhard & others on this TB! list & following this thread,
First of all, rather than draw all readers into a SOT discussion of
the actual (rather than dictionary) common meanings for words in
languages not in English (the official language of this list -
TBUDL), I'll mention that in the past TB! has been compared to
Pegasus (for example) in a VERY thorough & intricate way here on
TBUDL. However - the principle (Alex Kiselev) contributor no longer
participates and IAC, I suspect that now that the original TBUDL was
spit in two, perhaps the most appropriate forum for the query would
be TBTECH - so I'll repost it there. What follows is purely
linguistic and describes the use of the word "poco" in Mexico, where
I've lived since 1974.
Friday, June 29, 2001, you stated regarding: Poco means "Not Much":
DH>> poco means not much in Spanish & my general feeling is that
DH>> it's not much of a competitor compared to TB! What I'm looking
DH>> for is confirmation of this from someone who has looked at it
DH>> recently, since I don't plan on doing so myself.
BK> poco
BK> 1 (adj;pron) (sg;gen) little;
BK> (peque�o) small;
BK> (escaso) slight, scanty;
BK> I'm sorry, but "not much" is a very derogatory translation; "small"
BK> will describe the program more precise.
That's the trouble with dictionary translations (I write this from
Mexico). The Spanish words commonly used for SMALL are (peque�o(a)
or chico(a). Here, the common use of poco is "little" ("quiero poco"
means I don't want much, just a little (for example), and "poca
cosa" is indeed a commonly used derogatory term that means the thing
referred to is of slight importance. Perhaps I'm a TB! loyalist but
as mentioned, "Poco" was compared to TB! earlier on either TBUDL or
the Opera-Users list and was considered superficial at that time by
the writer (a fellow TB! user).
BK> Maybe it's not a real competitor to TB! ( and I'm using TB! for
BK> myself) but there is at least a very nice macro language in Poco I'd
BK> like to have in TB!
BK> And as to the confirmation: a man has to do his experiences for
BK> himself ...
Thanks for the advice. However (as stated), I have no intention of
doing so and that is precisely why I posted the request for
information. I'll try TBTECH, next.
Douglas
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