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Change 'verboten' to 'prohibited' - #19929
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steveklabnik
commented
Dec 16, 2014
Sorry, but I'm not interested in this kind of change. It's a style/tone thing, and someone may also not know what 'prohibited' means, either. |
cllns
commented
Dec 16, 2014
OK, that's fine @steveklabnik. To be honest, I didn't realize it's considered a real loanword: I thought it was purely German. For the record though, I asked a few people if they know what 'verboten' means:
Neither 1 nor 2 knew what it meant. 3 did, but they know a bit of German. |
mneumann
commented
Dec 16, 2014
It is purely German :D but I've also seen it quite some times in an english context. Much easier to pronounciate than "prohibited" and much stronger :) |
srh
commented
Dec 17, 2014
Anybody that has played Wolfenstein 3D should know what this means. |
alexispurslane
commented
Dec 17, 2014
Is it verboten to use verboten in english documentation? Using verboten shouldn't be verboten. 😸 |
Maybe a more suitable resolution to the issues raised in rust-lang#19929 and rust-lang#20439.
tshepang
commented
Aug 4, 2015
@steveklabnik please revise your decision... a lot more people are going to understand prohibited. As an aside, even more people are going to understand not allowed. |
Diggsey
commented
Aug 4, 2015
Verboten is listed in the english dictionaries I checked, and its meaning is obvious from the context here anyway. It even sounds a lot like "forbidden". |
tshepang
commented
Aug 4, 2015
@Diggsey Lots of words that very few people know are listed in dictionaries. In the case of verboten, are we missing anything that forbidden or prohibited doesn't give? I see more harm (fewer people know the word) than good (some people here like the word more). |
From:
That said, sometimes, mutation is what you need, so it's not verboten.To:
That said, sometimes, mutation is what you need, so it's not prohibited.I like the word verboten, but it could distract from the content, if the reader doesn't know what it means.