Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/10/30/11:29:59
On 30/10/06, Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT defaria DOT com> wrote:
> Mike Maxwell wrote:
> > That's not what I said, go back and re-read. Wait, I'll save you the
> > trouble: I said that 99% of the words we know--not 99% of the people
> > who know words--are our definitions that we infer from usage, rather
> > than from looking them up.
> >
> > The second thing that shows me that you can't read, is that I also did
> > not suggest changing terminology. I suggested changing a message.
> > And the change is away from a non-standard usage (in the Windows
> > world) to a standard usage ("restart Windows").
> >
> > As for my guesstimate, I am a linguist, and it is standard knowledge
> > among linguists that most of the vocabulary we use (in our first
> > language--second language learning is often different) is not from
> > looking definitions up in dictionaries.
> It's still a number you've pulled from your ask thus it stinks. Listen
> dude - I am often in the Windows world and standard usage in the Windows
> world is reboot - trust me!
From http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2Fsupport%2Fglossary%2FR.asp:
reboot
vb. To restart a computer by reloading the operating system. See also
boot2, cold boot, warm boot.
:)
Chris
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