English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

Thorsten Kampe thorsten at thorstenkampe.de
Thu May 26 19:30:59 EDT 2011


* sal migondis (Thu, 26 May 2011 17:50:32 -0400)
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:28 PM, sal migondis <salmig99 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de>
> > It's unnecessary bullshit buzzword bingo from nerds which adds or
> > helps or explains nothing. It's just that simple.
> 
> This has nothing to do with buzzwords whatsoever.
> 
> Despite polite hints from several other posters, the problem is that (like
> the OP) you are not a native speaker of English but you will not listen and
> still think you are qualified to make recommendations regarding usage and
> abusage in the English language.

*sigh* there is nothing in "recursively delete" which would be specific 
to English. It would be the same in French, Spanish, Italian or German 
("rekursiv löschen").

Thorsten



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