Curious Omission In New-Style Formats
Antoon Pardon
antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be
Fri Jul 15 06:44:51 EDT 2016
Op 15-07-16 om 11:20 schreef Marko Rauhamaa:
> Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be>:
>
>> Op 15-07-16 om 08:06 schreef Marko Rauhamaa:
>>> Common usage among educated speakers ordinarily is the yardstick for
>>> language questions.
>> But educated about what exactly?
> In this case we are talking about those people who actively talk about
> significand/mantissa. By and large, they call the thing mantissa.
I think there is an important difference between actively talking about
something and being educated (about it).
I have known people who actively talked about negative feedback while
what they actually meant was a vicious circle that technically was
possitive feedback but with results they wanted to avoid.
--
Antoon Pardon.
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