[Oberon] Experimental Oberon
Alexander Ilin
ajsoft at yandex.ru
Tue Nov 28 21:49:05 CET 2017
Hello!
28.11.2017, 18:19, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>:
> On 28 November 2017 at 06:20, Andreas Pirklbauer
> <andreas_pirklbauer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> That discussion is now mute of course.
>
> That is "moot", meaning "cannot be decided".
>
> "Mute" is an entirely different word, meaning "silent" or "incapable of speech".
>
> A discussion can be moot but not mute, as if it is the latter, it is
> not a discussion at all.
I thought Andreas meant that the old discussion is now mute due to everyone not discussing the topic anymore.
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Александр
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