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Re: OT Appeasement, was: add your Scheme implementation to Debian

Siegfried Gonzi

2004-10-12, 8:57 am

Jussi Piitulainen wrote:

> MJ Ray writes:
>
>
> Collins Cobuild English Dictionary marks "appease" as [pragmatic] and
> says it's "often used showing disapproval". The main explanation is,
> "If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them being

by
> giving them what they want". Synonym "placate" is not so marked.

If we still refer to the term "Beschwichtigung". I would rather like to
translate it by the following meaning:

==
If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them being

by making
them to believe what they got or get is acceptable.
==

But I am still puzzled why anyone is believing that appeasement is
loaded? I mean by that nearly everything would be loaded then -- or
wouldn't it.

Fensterbrett

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