From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Samanta Navarro <ferivoz@riseup.net>,
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [patch] pthread_cancel.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_testcancel.3, pthreads.7: tfix
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:09:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eda92c0f-9175-7e2e-3b6d-4c510c60afc3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211113130024.zka6elp7mmshsrlv@localhost>
Hi Samanta,
On 11/13/21 14:00, Samanta Navarro wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 11:40:17PM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>>> Changed cancelability to cancellability.
>> This is a localization issue. Words like 'travel' and 'cancel' usually
>> decline to forms with a doubled 'l' in Commonwealth English but retain
>> an unmodified stem in U.S. English.
>
> You are right. But e.g. pthread_cancel already contains cancellation.
> So I think that cancellability would be matching the already existing
> style. Or cancellation is also changed to cancelation.
In general (with a few exceptions, see
<https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ffe209ee-809c-10ea-c077-12669ff0f5ab@gmail.com/>),
we prefer US English. If you would like to send a patch for
s/cancellation/cancelation/ I'd like to merge it.
Thanks!
Alex
>
> Sincerely,
> Samanta
>
--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-22 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-13 11:56 [patch] pthread_cancel.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_testcancel.3, pthreads.7: tfix Samanta Navarro
2021-11-13 12:40 ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-11-13 13:00 ` Samanta Navarro
2021-11-22 17:09 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2021-11-24 11:58 ` Samanta Navarro
2021-11-29 11:59 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
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