On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 02:18:20PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > John Darrington <j...@gnu.org> skribis: > > > * doc/guix.texi (Services): "Various" -> "Miscellaneous" > > How does the meaning of these two words differ? (I???m not a native > speaker, so I???m curious.) > > It is a subtle nuance. > > What I understand from "Various Services" is "A group of services which I > chose arbitrarily". > Wheras "Miscellaneous Services" means to me: "Services which don't fit into > any of the > hitherto mentioned categories". > > Perhaps there is no formal difference, but "various" sounds odd to me in that > context. > I think that "miscellaneous" is more common in such use cases.
I don't find this use of "various" to be confusing or strange, but "miscellaneous" is more idiomatic in this context.
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