Re: [PATCH] doc: replace jargon word "impact" with "effect"/"affect"

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 13, 2021, 08:28 UTC
Message-ID: <609ce33fc57e7_5a820820@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <20210513074622.GG8544@kitsune.suse.cz>

Michal Suchánek wrote:

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> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 02:42:16PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > If you and your wife are deciding what to eat for dinner, and you have
> > two opinions:
> > 
> >   1. Whatever is fine
> >   2. I really would like pizza
> > 
> > What do you think you should order?
> 
> That would be the situation if you comented on the patch adding 'impact'
> before it was merged.

No analogy is perfect.

> If you want a dining metaphor for the current situation it would be more
> like
> 
> 1. There are 100 people around the table eating lasagne

You are starting wrong. *Nobody* is reading the word "impact" right now, and we are not going to swap the word in the middle of their reading.

This is a much worse analogy, and I seriously doubt you actually think this remotely resembles the situation at hand.

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Felipe Contreras