Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 18:37:46 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020520183746.J12212@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <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> <20020520084354.GP44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On Monday, 20 May 2002 at 10:43:54 +0200, 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. :) It still says what it said before: "but this behaviour is actually more common in Dutch and German." This doesn't imply that it's mandated, but it is. That's what I clarified. > Dutch and German hold some of the longest words known in all latin > character based languages. Well, this is purely a matter of the printed word. That's a thing that many English-speaking people don't understand. 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
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