[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] mythtv branch master updated by stuarta. v0.27-pre2-697-g2e62ddc

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Feb 27 20:04:51 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 07:57:13PM +0100, Karl Dietz wrote:
> On 27.02.2013 15:55, Git Repo Owner wrote:
> >
> >- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >URL:       http://code.mythtv.org/cgit/mythtv/commit/?id=2e62ddccb81abaa22fe080510ee6fe34125412b1
> >
> >We really did me iff
> >After 32b0546e change if back to iff (if and only if)
> >as we did actually mean that.
> 
> That's not so nice for us non-native speakers. I'm not sure if using
> simplified english is a good fit for MythTV but it seems to be targeted
> at a similar use case. (technical documentation for international teams)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English

Certainly iff is a not very commonly used short form of "if and only if".
Why not just write "if and only if" rather than iff?

-- 
Len Sorensen


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