On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:

> Considering the language is English, it would be a pity if the reader
> made this mistake. Let's assume a modicum of 'common sense' at least.

With an international project like Debian, we can't assume that
English is everyone's first language. As a result it would be 'common
sense' to use clear English and avoid possibly ambiguous words. Also,
'dupe' in English has a similar dictionary meaning as French.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dupe

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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