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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:03:25PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai 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.

It is rather common when some technical slang term becomes part of a
language, and is no longer should be treated as erroneous as it might
seem from "compound noun rules", IMHO, and "filesystem" is a perfect
example of this.

./danfe


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