Desktop Guide/Getting Started

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Wed Nov 30 19:04:03 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 13:54 -0500, Kevin Cole wrote:
> Matthew East wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 00:14 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > 
> > > in any case,  I'll leave it to native english speakers to decide if
> > > ethic is correct or not.  It sounds good to me, but that doesn't
> > > mean a lot :)
> > 
> > my vote goes to "ethical". 
> 
> "Ethical" works... but I keep reaching for something different... Ponder...
> ponder... ponder...
> 
>   0) Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on people's
>      allegiances and relations with each other.
> 
>   1) Ubuntu is a South African ideology focusing on the ethics of
>      people's allegiances and relations with each other.
> 
>   2) Ubuntu is a South African ethic focusing on the people's
>      allegiances and relations with each other.
> 
>   3) Ubuntu is a South African principle focusing on the people's
>      allegiances and relations with each other.
> 
> I guess mine aren't really any kind of improvement, but may give an
> idea or two to someone else.

Oh I much prefer 1). I was just supporting ethical over ethic ;)

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