From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 19 13:43:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4474A37B40E; Sun, 19 May 2002 13:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020519204350.FRWE8004.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Sun, 19 May 2002 20:43:50 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4JKhmE77856; Sun, 19 May 2002 13:43:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to crist.clark@attbi.com using -f Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 13:43:48 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: chat@FreeBSD.org Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev , Peter Wemm , Tom Rhodes , Greg Lehey , 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> Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from asmodai@wxs.nl on Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:03:25PM +0200 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message