<div>2007/10/7, M Daniel R Magarzo <<a href="mailto:b2.mdr.magarzo@gmail.com">b2.mdr.magarzo@gmail.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> El dom, 07-10-2007 a las 00:24 -0400, Gian Paolo Mureddu escribió: > > Would (roughly) translate into: > > "Fedora: Liberty included" > > Now, I *chose* __Liberty__ instead of "freedom" given the ambiguous > meaning of "free" in colloquial English. "Free" is ambiguous indeed, but "freedom" is not. > Alas even though "freedom" as > such is reasonably enough "universally understood" as a synonym of > liberty (or so is my [limited] understanding of the English language), It's easy to solve: <a href="http://diccionario.reverso.net/ingles-espanol/freedom">http://diccionario.reverso.net/ingles-espanol/freedom </a> (está clarito, ¿no?)</blockquote><div> </div>Liberty and freedom are synonymous, but they are used in completely different contexts. Liberty is mainly used in social contexts, "may I take the liberty to..", in political contexts, "liberty as a universal aspiration of man", "the attack of the US government on civil liberties is, alas, not met with much resistance", etc. Freedom is a much more existential and down-to-earth word, much preferred to liberty when it comes to slogans such as discussed here. A prisoner wants freedom, not liberty. Freedom is the abstract yet very concrete 'version' of liberty. </div>I think it is a much abused word, especially in some regions of the world. "God" is much more abused, though, so we can safely use the former. My idea of a slogan: "Fedora - not all things free suck" or: "Booting freedom... [[[ OK ]]]" :) hrmn