From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:12:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071019021255.GD3290@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071019004527.GA12930@spearce.org>
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:45:27PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Recently I was referred to the Grammar Police as the git-pack-objects
> progress message 'Deltifying %u objects' is considered to be not
> proper English to at least some small but vocal segment of the
> English speaking population. Techncially we are applying delta
> compression to these objects at this stage, so the new term is
> slightly more acceptable to the Grammar Police but is also just
> as correct.
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.
Anyway, if you want to please the Grammar Police, should it not be
"Delta-compressing"? "Delta" is not an adverb here, but rather the
phrase acts as a compound verb (i.e., the two words work in place of a
single verb). Although "Delta-compressing objects" just looks stupid.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 2:13 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 [this message]
2007-10-19 2:19 ` Sam Vilain
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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