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Sorry for the irrelevant response but: s/tenant/tenet/ Not just you, I recently read “All information should be free” was a core tenant of the hacker culture a
by yesenadam 9y ago
Sorry for the irrelevant response but: s/tenant/tenet/
Not just you, I recently read “All information should be free” was a core tenant of the hacker culture at MIT.[0] Don't tell me it's becoming proper English!
A tenant is a person who holds lands; a tenet is something held to be true. I didn't realize until learning Spanish that ten and tain in English words means to have/hold! Their verb 'to have' is tener (Latin: tenere). Maintain is mantener; also there's contener, detener, obtener, retener, sostener...
[0] http://ctankersley.com/2017/01/04/the-history-of-open-source/ http://ctankersley.com/2017/01/04/the-history-of-open-source...