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

[Toby Smithe]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:10 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 04:41, Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> I believe that this is a Microsoft influence. While the term "logon" has 
> existed for decades, Microsoft has been popularising it in their line of 
> software.
> 

Ahhh. Yes, you're right. That *is* the context I have used it in. Hmm...
I'd probably be more accurate if I hadn't started thinking about this.

I believe though that we do not want to use a Microsoft term; surely we
want to be discrete?
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