From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 21 19:15:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABDB537B405 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 19:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 95CD78148C; Wed, 22 May 2002 11:45:43 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:45:43 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Marc Ramirez Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Storing things (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020522114543.E26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020520084354.GP44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020521144509.X6231-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020521144509.X6231-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Tuesday, 21 May 2002 at 14:46:12 -0400, Marc Ramirez wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > >> -On [20020520 02:45], Greg 'groggy' Lehey (grog@FreeBSD.org) wrote: >>>>> 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. >> >> That's what I said. Reread what I wrote again. :) >> >> Dutch and German hold some of the longest words known in all latin >> character based languages. > > Thank God this is on -chat! > > Aside from books and groceries, what is the difference between > bookstore and grocery store? Well, for one thing, "grocery" and "store" occur in the OED, while "bookstore" doesn't. Also, you can't store groceries as long as you store books. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message