On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 09:18:13PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Dear Adrian,
Dear Chris, > > This is fake news. > > Please try and avoid casual use of this term on Debian lists. > > Whilst I understand your meaning and intentions, the term has now been > so overused and overapplied and has been evacuated of all useful > meaning. > > Indeed, its use now appears to only distract & unnecessarily antagonise > readers and should probably be considered an illegal move in civilised > or otherwise productive conversation. I thought this would would have been less offensive than the normal "This is a lie." when a statement is the exact opposite of the truth (compare [1] with the claim "no upstream release since 2013"), but as non-native speaker I accept your explanation that I was wrong on that. > Best wishes, cu Adrian [1] ftp://ftp.unixusers.net/src/fdclone/ -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
