RFC: Possibility to re-edit last commit message
John Yates
jyates at netezza.com
Mon Jan 29 22:04:40 GMT 2007
On Monday, Jan 29, 2007 Jari Aalto wrote:
> For what its worth, the word "amend" is very foreign to non-native speakers.
Not too long ago on a DVC mailing list someone pointed out that the a constitution is an append-only document. For most English speakers the meaning of the verb "to amend" will follow from their familiarity with the amendment process. I originally thought that such an observation might be generalized to nearly any developer familiar with constitutional government. Some quick research suggests that though Finland has a constitution the amendment process is deemphasized in favor exceptive law. Perhaps that explains why the term seems foreign to you.
/john
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