Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 13:43:48 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.org Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from asmodai@wxs.nl on Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:03:25PM %2B0200 References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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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.
So when do we start the "web site"/"website" and "web page"/"webpage"
debate?
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