[vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?

The next stable version of VDR (to be released on February 19) will contain the functionality from the "binary skip" patch (by Rolf Ahrenberg and Helmut Auer). Since most VDR users probably won't understand what the word "binary" means in that context, we're looking for a better wording for the se

Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?

Hi Klaus, On 02/05/15 16:56, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: The question now is: is "bisect" the right word here, which a native English speaker would use? Or should it rather be "halve"? Or something completely different? IMHO all these fancy words are a bit overblown. I am not a native En

Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?

> The question now is: is "bisect" the right word here, which a native English > speaker would use? Or should it rather be "halve"? Or something completely > different? Bisect isn't correct. Bisecting means to cut something into 2 parts. Using "halve" doesn't make sense. Binary doesn't either for