http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-xiiiComments on "These are a few of my favorite words, Part XIII" - Faerye Net2005-05-13T13:24:57+00:00http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-xiii#comment-1733Re: quell trivia:2005-05-13T13:24:57+00:002005-05-13T13:24:57+00:00<p>Ha! I had forgotten that…it makes some sense, in the current usage of quell as ‘suppress’—you’re suppressing the natural behavior of the e-mail client.<br />
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I may be wrong to think that ‘suppression’ is a natural model for interaction with computer programs, but it fits both my hazy memory of programming and my current mindset, brought about by my bizarre desire to use an e-mail client in French; instead of ‘deleting’ messages, I ‘supprime’ them—which, in French, is ‘suppress’.</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-xiii#comment-1732quell trivia:2005-05-13T07:14:25+00:002005-05-13T07:14:25+00:00<p>Pine, the old and venerable email app, has a number of configuration settings that begin with the term. They’re of the flavor – “Stop pine from doing this”.</p>dr512