KDE 4.0.0!

[Wulfy]

Terence Simpson wrote:
> Wulfy wrote:
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>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
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>>> (KDE 4.0 is not KDE4).
>>>     
>>>       
>> Several times I've heard this now so I have a question (not just to 
>> Dotan, who is only quoting what the KDE Developers said).  If KDE 4.0 is 
>> not KDE4, what is it?  It's not KDE3...
>>
>>   
>>     
> Basically "KDE4" is the names given to the whole series starting with 
> 4.0.0, in the same way the "KDE 3.5.8" isn't "KDE3", but it is a part of 
> the "KDE3" series.
>
>
>   
By synecdoche[0], KDE 4.0 *is* KDE4... to say it's not KDE4 implies it's 
not even *part* of KDE4, which is patently false...

[0] syn·ec·do·che
–noun Rhetoric. a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole 
or the whole for a part

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