[Foundation-l] CheckUser (thoughts)

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Wed Apr 26 07:26:36 UTC 2006


Anthere wrote:

>And as a result of this mix-up... because of the need to "trust" the 
>checkuser, we have zizanie (does that exist in english ?). We have 
>internal fight and rancor).
>
Larouse first describes this as "discord" but the French word 
"désaccord" seems very weak; it lacks the nuances of "zizanie".  Perhaps 
"stir things up" works.  The idea that a problem was started where there 
was none before does not easily translate into English.  Does this help?

Ec




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