Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:16:26 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020520111626.B12293@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020520183746.J12212@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:37:46PM %2B0930 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>
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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
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