[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] setup/set-up, plugin/plug-in and login/log-in

[Toby Smithe]

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 19:39 +0100, Paul Huxley wrote:
> That's what I was thinking... my immediate reaction was to say that in
> most cases I would talk about logging on rather than in...

This is weird. I hadn't thought of that, and now I think that I would
also say "I've gotta log on to the computer".

> On 8/28/06, Dan Bishop <dan at viciouslime.co.uk> wrote: 
>         I would always have said login, or at least I think I would.
>         but after seeing all this I'm no longer sure. I have tried
>         asking a few people now "When you want to use a computer at
>         school, what is the first thing you have to do?" Once they've
>         given me a detailed account of how a power button works ALL of
>         them have said, "Then you log on"...
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 15:59 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote: 
>         > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 00:52 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>         > > On Monday 28 August 2006 22:59, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
>         > > > If we're using Google as an unscientific metric ...
>         > > 
>         > > Entirely unscientific - that cannot be stressed enough.
>         > 
>         > Seconded. And I don't think most of the results are definitive. The
>         > Google search system is too scientific to be used unscientifically; the
>         > results vary wildly depending on *exactly* how the search terms are
>         > given. This disgards its use as a metric.
>         > 
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