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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing	objects'
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:19:28 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47181430.2080907@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071019021255.GD3290@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> Boo. I _like_ "deltifying". Sure, it's probably not in the dictionary,
> but that's how languages change: saying "delta compressing" all the time
> will get awkward, so people invent a new word using existing rules to
> explain a common phenomenon.

This is not very considerate to non-native speakers, though, who might
not grasp the neogolism.

Perhaps just "compressing" if it gets awkward.

Sam.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-19  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19  0:45 [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects' Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  2:12 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  2:19   ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2007-10-19  2:24     ` David Symonds
2007-10-19  2:34       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  3:02         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19  2:36       ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  2:55         ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-19  2:25     ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  2:21   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  2:34     ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  2:47       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  3:01       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19  3:07         ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  3:24           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19  3:32             ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  3:50               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19  3:56                 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  4:21                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-19  4:29                     ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 11:58                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 19:00                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-19 21:57                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-19  5:09                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  3:33             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  5:03         ` [PATCH] Stop displaying "Pack pack-$ID created." during git-gc Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  2:49     ` [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects' Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19  3:17       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  3:38         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19  3:41           ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  3:45           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  4:02             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 11:44             ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-19  2:45   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19  2:59     ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  3:11       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19  3:15         ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  3:27           ` Nicolas Pitre

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