Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 18:47:58 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020520184758.A73384@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from asmodai@wxs.nl on Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:03:25PM %2B0200 References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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