[Scons-dev] WTF NB?

[anatoly techtonik]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:32 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I am reading CHANGES.txt:

>> ...

>>       and integrated with the C and C++ linking.   NB  This is only tested with

>>       D v2, D v1 is now deprecated.

>> ...

>>

>> What is NB? The most closest I can find in Wikipedia is

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene but my brain hurts

>> when I try to translate the exact meaning into my native

>> language.

>>

>> Can we try to be simple?

>

> NB does indeed mean "nota bene", which translates as "note well".

> It's pretty common in English, although it's from Latin.

> Other similar abbreviations are e.g. for "exempli gratia" and i.e. for

> "id est" as well as the very common etc. ("et cetera")  There are lots

> of these, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_abbreviations

> for more.

> (I usually write N.B. rather than NB for clarity; I'd accept a pull

> request to fix that. ;-) )


Ok. I thought that note is a boolean action. There is no thing like
"badly noted" - people either note or miss something, so how can
you "note well"? "Note and check twice that you've understood".

I'll replace it with just note then.
-- 
anatoly t.