On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:21:52 +0100 Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> > Not saying we CAN'T do it, but seriously, how many words in the > > English language have both a verb and a noun and can mean slightly > > different things? (cheating answer: many). > > > There are many. The confusion however comes from the fact that split > (noun) is ambiguous in itself. It sometimes means the parts you get > after splitting something (like in your wine example), and sometimes > it refers to the gap between the pieces instead. The latter meaning > is clearly the more obvious one for Micheal and Alan. So if we can > avoid this confusion by using another term that could make gnucash > easier to learn. Geert We can't fix English, it's a moving target. “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
