Re: [PATCH] doc: replace jargon word "impact" with "effect"/"affect"
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Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
- Date
- May 12, 2021, 04:11 UTC
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- <20210512041138.GO12700@kitsune.suse.cz>
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- <609b47043a719_678ff208e@natae.notmuch>
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:09:56PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> Michal Suchánek wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 02:21:43PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > Michal Suchánek wrote: > > > > > If you are concerned about correctness and clarity of the documentation please > > > > avoid spreading misinformation. > > > > > > Under certain definition of "jaron" Varun's statement would be > > > incorrect, but not under all definitions. If you use the definition > > > I stated above, "impact" can be considered jargon, because it's a bit > > > obscure language. > > > > Do you have any frequency data that supports your claim that the word > > 'impact' is obscure? > > This is not how logic works. > > If I don't have frequency data that supports $x, but you have no > frequency data that supports !$x, then we return to the default position; > we don't know if $x is true or not. > > Do **you** have any frequency data that supports the negative claim that > the word "impact" is not obscure?
I don't need that data. You are proposing a change so it is your duty to support your claim that the change is worthwhile. Otherwise it's a change just for the sake of change.
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> > > The bar for change should be that the word as used is very unfitting or > > unintelligible. > > No. The bar is that **nobody** have any problem with "affect", and some > people have a problem with "impact".
And that's established how, specifically?
Thanks
Michal