From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects' Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:12:55 -0400 Message-ID: <20071019021255.GD3290@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20071019004527.GA12930@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 19 04:13:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IihMs-0007Lw-1l for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:13:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933563AbXJSCM7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:12:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764993AbXJSCM7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:12:59 -0400 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:3204 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764181AbXJSCM6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:12:58 -0400 Received: (qmail 7426 invoked by uid 111); 19 Oct 2007 02:12:56 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:12:56 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:12:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071019004527.GA12930@spearce.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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