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Only if you didn't understand conventional use of the term. Since no one really speaks Latin anymore, the conventional use of the term is all that matters. If
by crusso 13y ago
Only if you didn't understand conventional use of the term. Since no one really speaks Latin anymore, the conventional use of the term is all that matters.
If a speaker uses a term and the audience understands it, whipping out your Latin dictionary is pointlessly pedantic.
- GrinningFool 13y agoI think your anti-pedanticism is excessively pedantic. Conventional use of the term does indicate an analysis of events after something has come to an end - if not necessarily death. A company, a project, an incident response. I'm with GP on this one. Based on the title, I thought that the project had in some way come to completion and this was an after-the-fact analysis of cause, effect, and resulting behaviors. As you said, the conventional use is what matters - and the author here has used the term in a non-conventional sense. Edit: another read through after seeing the author's comment below. The project did, in fact, come to an end - though that wasn't really clear. Given the content I think the "retrospective" is a better fit. The author used this in the content of the entry itself.