Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko(a)gmail.com> writes:
The author of systemd (Lennart Poettering) is also not a native
English
speaker. If you can convince him that your knowledge of English is
better than his own, he might even listen to your suggestions.
Perhaps he referred to some dictionaries and that made him chose
"disabled".
However, I doubt that the existing terminology would be changed,
since
people got used to the current one by now, and I believe it would be
impossible to switch without a major confusion among a lot of people.
That's the problem ... If "disable" and "mask" were to be
replaced,
they should still be available for some time along with the new words.
That might create more confusion than it could do any good.
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