From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 20 19:39:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4A037B40D for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 19:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 77B398148C; Tue, 21 May 2002 12:09:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:09:30 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020521120930.A4408@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> <20020520084354.GP44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020520183746.J12212@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020520111626.B12293@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020520111626.B12293@lpt.ens.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Monday, 20 May 2002 at 11:16:26 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > 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"? nit-picking. 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