From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 20 1:44: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@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 010E837B404; Mon, 20 May 2002 01:43:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0C2132171; Mon, 20 May 2002 10:43:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:43:54 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020520084354.GP44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020520100000.K54769@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: Ninth Circle Enterprises 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 [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