[Development] Avoid overloading of 'error'
Alan Alpert
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Sun Jun 14 05:01:54 CEST 2015
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Lorn Potter <lorn.potter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/06/2015 12:36 am, Samuel Gaist wrote:
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>> failed doesn't always mean there was an error with a direct relation.
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> I was going to say this, but you beat me to it.
> Also, "errored" is just wrong, "error" is also past tense.
I consulted a linguist. She said that if you wanted to use error as a
verb (it's not normally one), errored would be the past tense. But
that it's probably not the best choice of word.
She also said to link to this comic: http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3761
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Alan Alpert
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