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[python-committers] English 'precise' is only an adjective, not a verb.

Jesus Cea jcea at jcea.es
Tue Apr 26 01:30:14 CEST 2011 
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On 25/04/11 21:44, Terry Reedy wrote:
> This mistake, which I have seen before, has an understandable reason.
> 'Precise' is derived (borrowed) from the French "pre'cis" which is at

Thanks for the nice explanation. I find interesting that english, being
so used to interchange verbs, adjetives and nouns, is so picky here :).

For instance, in Spanish we have a translation for "searcher", but not
for "finder". It is a non-word in spanish :). English is usually so
liberal, in comparison... :)

Don't ask me for the plural of "virus" in different lenguajes :-p.

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