From owner-cvs-all Sun May 19 3: 3:34 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (a96180.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.96.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB86637B413; Sun, 19 May 2002 03:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3A8C02171; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:03:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 12:03:25 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: 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: <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Reply-To: chat@freebsd.org References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: Ninth Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai / Kita no Mono asmodai@wxs.nl, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.org http://www.softweyr.com/asmodai/ | http://www.tendra.org/ To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent -- herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message