Comment by globular-toast

Comment by globular-toast 5 days ago

Call it whatever you like. I don't care and that clearly wasn't the point of my comment.

One thing I've learnt, though, is unless you have a very good reason to try to change language you should just talk the same language as everyone else. I don't like the American short billion. It makes no sense and it's less useful. But that's what I use because I speak English and that's what we use now. If I see a src/ directory I know exactly what it is. If I see source/ it will give me pause. Get over it IMO.

oblio 4 days ago

> If I see a src/ directory I know exactly what it is. If I see source/ it will give me pause.

Pause for what, coffee? How does this even make sense?

What could possibly be inside source/, if not the exact same thing as in src/?

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von_lohengramm 4 days ago

While the meaning of "source" may be intuitively obvious, it's still relatively unfamiliar as "src" is far more prevalent than "source" when referring to source files. While "id est" may be equivalent to "i.e.", you'd still naturally pause when reading text using the former instead of the latter, because the latter is far more prevalent in usage than the former.

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