From: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update and fix Makefile (spelling fix)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:06:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801132206.52023.stimming@tuhh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18311.64910.643392.816623@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Am Samstag, 12. Januar 2008 00:36 schrieb Paul Mackerras:
> > Christian Stimming (2):
> > gitk: Fix typo in user message.
>
> I was going to ignore this one since "descendent" is actually a valid
> alternate spelling, and is the one I am used to. However, I don't
> have a strong feeling about it.
In the dictionaries I consulted before proposing this patch, "descendant" was
the *only* valid spelling. I checked http://dict.leo.org/?search=descendent ,
(on paper) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (1998 edition). Now when
looking up http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/descendent your original spelling is
also mentioned as a variant, but as the other dictionaries didn't have it, I
assumed this should rather be changed.
Christian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-13 21:10 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
2008-01-13 21:06 ` Christian Stimming [this message]
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