From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update and fix Makefile
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:04:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080112050433.GD5211@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr6gn29w1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:57:34PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I agree with you that both are valid spellings, but when I
> received 9e5d87d49070fe0463040e826824d6ce41beb089, I consulted a
> couple of dictionaries and descendant seemed to be more widely
> used. Besides, I think the german translation update depends on
> it ;-).
Descendant is a noun, whereas descendent is an adjective. Though like
many such distinctions, the two forms increasingly are used
interchangeably.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-12 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-08 20:54 [PATCH] gitk: Update and fix Makefile Christian Stimming
2008-01-08 22:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-09 3:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-01-09 8:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-11 8:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-11 9:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-11 23:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-01-11 23:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12 5:04 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-01-13 21:06 ` [PATCH] gitk: Update and fix Makefile (spelling fix) Christian Stimming
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