On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 06:31:02 +1000
David H wrote:
> This is getting ridiculous, can we stop the personal attacks now
> please.
I do not permit personal attacks on these English language Gnucash
lists which I moderate.
I privately email offenders to keep all of this off-list.
Liz
Moderator
> 1:
> after some cooling down of this discussion, you should create a pull
> request against
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/po/glossary/gnc-glossary.txt
>
I don't know what everybody's hysterical about, myself. I think using proper
accounting terminology is useful, so I'm hap
This seems like a lot of work. Kudos to anyone who wants to put in the
time, but I think the cost of maintaining a separate glossary exceeds the
benefit. To be clear, by "cost" I don't just mean the effort of creating
it, but also the risk that the newstarter community will be left to wade
through
Possibly needs crossreferences in the glossary. Accounting period is really a
general term which can be any of weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi annual,
annual, financial year, fiscal year as required by external and internal
reporting requirements for an entity (person, business, company etc). The
Hi,
There are at least 2 steps:
1. define the terminology as glossary
2. apply it to the messages of the program.
1:
after some cooling down of this discussion, you should create a pull
request against
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/po/glossary/gnc-glossary.txt
If someone from th
> This is getting ridiculous, can we stop the personal attacks now please.
> Let's just accept that different countries call it Fiscal Year and others
> call it Financial Year - my own accountant here in Oz calls it Financial Year
> and that is also what we called it in NZ when I lived ther
This is getting ridiculous, can we stop the personal attacks now please.
Let's just accept that different countries call it Fiscal Year and others
call it Financial Year - my own accountant here in Oz calls it Financial
Year and that is also what we called it in NZ when I lived there. I guess
we'r
>
> I wouldn't after 4 years of animal science (humans plus) plus a lot of home
> butchery. Look up the Dunning-Kruger Effect, two blokes got a nobel prize
> for saying you're full of shit. Your GP knows bugger all about lymph nodes
> anyway.
>
1) In what year did David Dunning and/or Justin Kru
> ...if I'm going to talk to a doctor (especially over the phone these days),
> I'll take 10 minutes on the Internet so I can say that the pain is "along my
> lymph nodes on the right side of my neck" than "the bumps next to my throat."
I wouldn't after 4 years of animal science (humans plus) pl
>
> Formal vs. layman terminology--or behavior for that matter--is a constant
> tension in GnuCash. AFAIK none of the developers has formal accounting
> training past one or two college courses; most rather less. Even fewer of the
> user base have any formal accounting training at all and so we
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