Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:43:54 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020520084354.GP44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <20020520100000.K54769@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> <20020520100000.K54769@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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-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. -- 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/ Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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