- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:22:15 +0000
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Fair enough : if you were using "delegate" in a neutral sense, then I have no problem with that. Philip TAYLOR -------- Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > To the best of my understanding, "delegate" carries no negative > connotation". I meant it roughly in sense 5 from > <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/delegate>: "5. to commit > (powers, functions, etc.) to another as agent or deputy". It is > generally considered a virtue to delegate appropriately, and a vice to > delegate inappropriately. > > I think you may have read a negative connotation into my statement > because of the similarity to the word "relegate", which means things > such as "to send into exile" or "to assign to a place of insignificance > or of oblivion". But "delegate" does not mean anything like that. > > Regards, > Maciej >
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