Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Oct 2006 20:09 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones Qualcomm on Wednesday joined up with the Mozilla Foundation to announce it is transitioning Eudora into an open source e-mail client that will be based upon Thunderbird. In turn, all future versions of Eudora will be free and Qualcomm will discontinue the current paid client. Although it may seem like Eudora is simply abandoning its e-mail software, which has a small but strong following of loyal users, the company claims the Thunderbird-based client will retain "Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements".
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by AdamW on Wed 11th Oct 2006 20:58 UTC
AdamW
Member since:
2005-07-06

TRANSITION IS NOT A f--kING VERB.

ThawkTH Member since:
2005-07-06

Wrong:

Main Entry: 2transition
Function: intransitive verb
: to make a transition <while they transition to a new, career-oriented lifestyle -- Sarah Bright>

- m-w.com

BTW, It's also an andverb and adjective.

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Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

TRANSITION IS NOT A f--kING VERB.

Come back and complain in such a rude manner when YOU speak 3 languages fluently, and can understand 4.

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AdamW Member since:
2005-07-06

Meh, I'm not really blaming you. A lot of people use it. It's just a horrible, horrible abuse of the language introduced by vacuous suits who want to make boring simple changes sound exciting and whizzy. Sigh.

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Terracotta Member since:
2005-08-15

"Come back and complain in such a rude manner when YOU speak 3 languages fluently, and can understand 4."

Not like it's that hard... He doesn't have to react that rude, but the defence is rather poor.

Edit: Typo grmbl, there goes my attack, lol.

Edited 2006-10-11 22:08

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rcsteiner Member since:
2005-07-12

One can speak a language (or three) fluently and still make serious mistakes in usage from time to time, so multi-language fluency is not really meaningful in the context of this discussion.

FWIW, though, your usage is correct as far as I'm concerned, so don't sweat it. Folks who harp in public about grammatical errors often do so because they have little else to contibute. :-(

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