From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 10:47:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080501104739.154a7994@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209608887.7650.6.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>
> > I think I'm going to follow this up with the professional bodies and see
> > if there is an opinion because either the computing world needs to agree
> > on a proper English name, or they need to agree on a new one and talk to
> > the dictionary people about it.
>
> If there's some kind of consensus, I don't have strong feelings either
> way.
BCS: "BCS use the OED as the final arbiter, without the zeds though...so
journalise is what we'd use if we absolutely had to."
I don't know if anyone has the right ACM contacts to find out what the
other big professional body thinks ?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-01 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 15:06 [PATCH] ext3: Fix synchronization of quota files in journal=data mode Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext4: " Jan Kara
[not found] ` <12095679812452-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext3: Fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled) Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext4: " Jan Kara
[not found] ` <12095679812717-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
[not found] ` <12095679824183-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext3: Correct mount option parsing to detect when quota options can be changed Jan Kara
2008-04-30 15:06 ` [PATCH] ext4: " Jan Kara
2008-04-30 17:43 ` [PATCH] ext3: Fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled) Andrew Morton
2008-04-30 20:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-30 22:02 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-04-30 23:20 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-01 2:28 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-05-01 9:47 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-01 10:01 ` Joe Fegan
2008-05-03 6:32 ` SL Baur
2008-05-05 10:09 ` Jan Kara
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080501104739.154a7994@core \
--to=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=jack@suse.cz \
--cc=linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).