Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:00:00 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020520100000.K54769@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Sunday, 19 May 2002 at 13:43:48 -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:03:25PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: >> [Follow-up to -chat] >> [This is all according to the books I have as well as my understanding, >> hence my strong wording. :) ] >> >> -On [20020517 06:45], Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe@regency.nsu.ru) wrote: >>> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:05:11PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: >>>> >>>> There is no such word as "filesystem". "file system" is more correct. >>> >>> There is, actually... My ispell doesn't object, at least, and neither >>> does Lingvo (FWIH). >> >> No, there is not a word like filesystem. It is a common misused word in >> English. >> Lingvo and ispell are wrong on this account. >> >>> Personally, I would consider this issue a matter of personal >>> preference, and frankly I go for "filesystem" as a single word. >> >> It is not personal preference. The compound noun rules are very >> explicit on things like this. A file system is a system of files. >> People have just concatenated the two words to form a noun, but this >> behaviour is actually more common in Dutch and German. In German at any rate, and I suspect in Dutch as well, the rule is the opposite: "Dateisystem" is correct, "Datei System" is wrong (but you see this sort of thing from time to time. > So when do we start the "web site"/"website" and "web page"/"webpage" > debate? Once we clarify the "book case" vs. "bookcase" debate. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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