From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
amyrick@apple.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Improve wording in a comment
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 12:04:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZdm6a7KDpNyWdLoG5Rc2f-1fCRk1pkg8U2RD3azotkBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuO3wgE_pLu1jcEyExhrzd+Fk_0Uqs23pFgf1NSZpUxVfQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Sebastian Schuberth
<sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Sebastian Schuberth
> <sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Is that an improvement? Is the plural of "dup" (used as an
>>> abbreviation of "duplicate") "dupes" not "dups"?
>>
>> My view is that the abbreviation of "duplicate" is not "dup" but
>> "dupe", hence the plural "dupes".
>
> For "duplicate" the noun, that is. For "duplicate" the verb I'd be ok
> with "dup" as the abbreviation. "to dup" sounds and looks better than
> "to dupe" :-)
>
We could also not abbreviate that word to avoid discussion there.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-05 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-05 13:26 [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Improve wording in a comment Sebastian Schuberth
2015-02-05 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-05 19:19 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2015-02-05 19:22 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2015-02-05 20:04 ` Stefan Beller [this message]
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