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Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors.

From Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors.
Date 2013-11-02 21:44 +0000
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:

> On the word "moot":
> Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> writes:
> <snip>
> > Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
> <snip>
> >> OED:
> >>
> >> 2. N. Amer. (orig. Law). Of a case, issue, etc.: having no practical
> >> significance or relevance; abstract, academic.
> <snip>
> > [...] Odd, I've never used in in any other sense.
> 
> I think you are not alone.  I put "US sense" just to be clear, but my
> impression is that it is often used with that meaning in the UK too.
> For one thing, the OED's UK meaning of being up for debate, is not
> nearly so useful.

:-)

Or it may be (for me) that:

1) I didn't hear the word used much until later in life

2) by which time I'd spent 12 years in the US and had perhaps absorbed
the US meaning there without realising it.

In this instance I prefer the US meaning. There. I'll table that for
discussion <runs away>.

-- 
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"  --  Bill of Rights 1689

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