KDE Commit-Digest (KDE.News) [LWN.net]

The , 2007 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced. The content summary says: "Sonnet, the natural language checker, continues to develop and can now discriminate between more than 70 different languages. More work on the "konsole-split-view" branch to add split/merge functionality to the KDE 4 console. Support for filesystem labels in the "mountconfig" Guidance configuration module. Large developments in the "mailtransport" KDE-PIM work to enable code sharing between users of the common "emailing" action. Support for background text colours in Konversation. Further work in the "Papillon" MSN Messenger connection library, with support for Xtraz status and notifications in Kopete. Gradient editing tool introduced across KOffice. Better support for PDF presentation files in Okular. Improved AI in the recently-imported game KSquares. "Sublime", the new user interface library for KDevelop 4 is imported into KDE SVN. The initial code for KRunner, the KDE 4 replacement for the "Run Command" dialog, is imported into KDE SVN. The RSS Konqueror sidebar plugin is removed from KDE SVN, along with dcoprss and librss, which will both be replaced by libsyndication in KDE 4."

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Semantics nitpick: "among" vs. "between"

Posted Jan 11, 2007 15:47 UTC (Thu) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256) [Link] (1 responses)

Amusing to make such a comment on a "natural language checker" ... the word
"between" should only be used when comparing or contrasting two options.
If there are more than two, the proper term is "among."

Thus, Sonnet can discriminate among more than 70 languages.

Presumably it doesn't check such minor semantic points.

Semantics nitpick: "among" vs. "between"

Posted Jan 21, 2007 19:39 UTC (Sun) by quintesse (guest, #14569) [Link]

It does not seem to be that clearcut though:

http://eebweb.arizona.edu/Faculty/chesson/between_and_amo...

http://www.cjr.org/tools/lc/betweenamong.asp

http://www.bartleby.com/68/27/827.html

Especially the example "Economic relations between Great Britain, France, and Italy are tense at present" seems similar to the remark about the checker, doesn't it?