Re: [Phpwiki-talk] the words 'diff' and "Vergleichen"

[Carsten K. <car...@ma...>]

Oh yes of course! Don't know how I missed that one. :-)

Well, in light of this I... reverse my opinion, to keep diff after all.

(Reminds me of an other popular "geek" term that made it's way into 
mainstream english: "...NOT!")

Carsten

On Saturday, December 29, 2001, at 09:53  pm, J C Lawrence wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:07:52 -0500
> Carsten Klapp <car...@ma...> wrote:
>
>> I'm not happy with the word diff either, for the same unix-ish
>> reason as you mention.
>
> "diff" is a common spoken English contraction of "difference", as in
> "What's the diff?" or, "Does it make any diff?"
>
> --
> J C Lawrence