From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 20 2:16:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6214237B40E; Mon, 20 May 2002 02:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g4K9GQH93939 ; Mon, 20 May 2002 11:16:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id LAA13463 ; Mon, 20 May 2002 11:16:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:16:26 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020520111626.B12293@lpt.ens.fr> 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> <20020520183746.J12212@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020520183746.J12212@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:37:46PM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 Greg 'groggy' Lehey said on May 20, 2002 at 18:37:46: > 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. Is all this "nitpicking" or "nit-picking"? - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message