From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 10:47:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080501104739.154a7994@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209608887.7650.6.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>
> > I think I'm going to follow this up with the professional bodies and see
> > if there is an opinion because either the computing world needs to agree
> > on a proper English name, or they need to agree on a new one and talk to
> > the dictionary people about it.
>
> If there's some kind of consensus, I don't have strong feelings either
> way.
BCS: "BCS use the OED as the final arbiter, without the zeds though...so
journalise is what we'd use if we absolutely had to."
I don't know if anyone has the right ACM contacts to find out what the
other big professional body thinks ?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-01 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 15:06 [PATCH] ext3: Fix synchronization of quota files in journal=data mode Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext4: " Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] reiserfs: " Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext3: Fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled) Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext4: " Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] reiserfs: " Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] quota: Add a convenience macro for filesystems Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext3: Correct mount option parsing to detect when quota options can be changed Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext4: " Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] reiserfs: " Jan Kara
2008-04-30 19:29 ` [PATCH] quota: Add a convenience macro for filesystems Andrew Morton
2008-05-05 10:01 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-30 17:43 ` [PATCH] ext3: Fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled) Andrew Morton
2008-04-30 20:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-30 22:02 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-04-30 23:20 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-01 2:28 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-05-01 9:47 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-01 10:01 ` Joe Fegan
2008-05-01 10:01 ` Joe Fegan
2008-05-03 6:32 ` SL Baur
2008-05-05 10:09 ` Jan Kara
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