There are no common words upvote/downvote in Russian, so I just said like/dislike. And it was really a mistake, these are two really different types of positive/negative marks, agree/disagree is third type and there may be any amount of other types. But I named it like/dislike, so I so thought about it like it means your power of liking it in form of outcome to author, not just adjusting the sorting like “do I want to see more posts like that higher in suggestions”.
And actually it looks for me like a more general tendency in my behaviour to avoid finding subtle differences between thing and, especially, terms. Probably, I’ve seen like people are trying to find difference in colloquial terms which are not strictly determined and next argue to that difference, I was annoyed by that and that annoyance forced me to avoid finding subtle differences in terms. Or maybe it is because they said us that synonyms are words with the same meaning, instead of near meanings (or “equal or near meanings”), and didn’t show us that there is difference in connotations. Or maybe the first was because of the second. Or maybe it was because I too much used programming languages instead of normal languages when I was only 8. Anyway, I probably need now to start developing a 24⁄7 automatically working habit to search and notice subtle differences.
Word use, especially short phrases with a LOT of contextual content, is fascinating. I often think the ambiguity is strategic, a sort of motte-and-bailey to smuggle in implications without actually saying them.
“like” vs “upvote” is a great example. The ambiguity is whether you like that the post/comment was made, vs whether you like the thing that the post/comment references. Either word could be ambiguous in that way, but “upvote” is a little clearer that you think the post is “good enough to win (something)”, vs “like” is just a personal opinion about your interests.
There are no common words upvote/downvote in Russian, so I just said like/dislike. And it was really a mistake, these are two really different types of positive/negative marks, agree/disagree is third type and there may be any amount of other types. But I named it like/dislike, so I so thought about it like it means your power of liking it in form of outcome to author, not just adjusting the sorting like “do I want to see more posts like that higher in suggestions”.
And actually it looks for me like a more general tendency in my behaviour to avoid finding subtle differences between thing and, especially, terms. Probably, I’ve seen like people are trying to find difference in colloquial terms which are not strictly determined and next argue to that difference, I was annoyed by that and that annoyance forced me to avoid finding subtle differences in terms. Or maybe it is because they said us that synonyms are words with the same meaning, instead of near meanings (or “equal or near meanings”), and didn’t show us that there is difference in connotations. Or maybe the first was because of the second. Or maybe it was because I too much used programming languages instead of normal languages when I was only 8. Anyway, I probably need now to start developing a 24⁄7 automatically working habit to search and notice subtle differences.
Word use, especially short phrases with a LOT of contextual content, is fascinating. I often think the ambiguity is strategic, a sort of motte-and-bailey to smuggle in implications without actually saying them.
“like” vs “upvote” is a great example. The ambiguity is whether you like that the post/comment was made, vs whether you like the thing that the post/comment references. Either word could be ambiguous in that way, but “upvote” is a little clearer that you think the post is “good enough to win (something)”, vs “like” is just a personal opinion about your interests.