Home folder?
Olaf Jan Schmidt
ojschmidt at kde.org
Sun Oct 26 21:42:30 GMT 2003
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[Dirk Mueller]
> do the google test:
>
> "home directory": 8630000
Among the first two result pages, there is but one hit actually refering
to computer directories.
> "home folder": 57300
>
> so we replace the term 99% of the people use with a term that is used in
> far less than 1% of the cases.
>
> Great job, guys. Really. Insanity at its best.
As a non-native speaker of English, I am not sure I am entitled to tell
native speakers which term to prefer.
But I don't really care much anyway.
Olaf
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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility Project
KDEAP co-maintainer, maintainer of http://accessibility.kde.org
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