On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
Just read some stuff on this list about "spins", a concept which had
not previously impinged itself upon my consciousness. So I went and
had a look at the
spins.fedoraproject.org page. It started off by saying
"What is a spin? Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored
...".
For God's sake, people!!! That's "alternative versions"!!! Alternate
means "every other" or "every second". Alternative means
"available as
another possibility". Saying "alternate" when you mean
"alternative" is
sloppy, lazy thinking and irritates and confuses the reader.
Why can't computer geeks learn to write English correctly?
In American usage this is acceptable and common. But if it bothers you
that much why didn't you just correct it on the wiki in a fraction of
the time it took you to rant about it here?
John