On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 6:15 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote: > 2020年2月5日(水) 17:54 Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>: >> >> > I'm not sure, but doesn't that mean "waiting for a checkpoint to >> > start"? Sorry in advance if that is not the case. >> >> No, I really meant "to finish". As Sawada-san said upthread, we >> should really use text that describes the activity that usually takes >> long. While it takes takes only a moment to actually start the >> checkpoint, it might take long for it to finish. > > I meant that the wording might sound as if it implies "to start", but..
Ah, I misunderstood then, sorry.
So, maybe you're saying that "waiting for checkpoint" is ambiguous and most people will assume it means "...to start". As for me, I assume it ends with "...to finish".
>> As Fujii-san says >> though we don't need the noise words "to finish". > > Understood, sorry for my noise.
Actually, that's an important point to consider and we should strive to use words that are unambiguous.