From: Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] Fix typo in code and comments
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:04:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104261904.13291.marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTincnFqEYO2MmKaU01_jZQhHU=iKGg@mail.gmail.com>
Am Dienstag 26 April 2011 11:25:58 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> wrote:
> > Replace writeable -> writable
>
> Why make this change? writeable and writable are both commonly used
> spellings.
It seems like "writeable" is the commonly used term in computer sciences and
"writable" is the normal english adjective formed from "to write" + "-able" in
general English.[1]
As we are refering to computer science related "writeable" it should be left
as is imho. But as I'm no native speaker, you might feel different on this.
On a side note: Samba offers both spellings as valid for thier configuration
files. [2]
[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/writeable
[2] http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22258.0
With regards,
Dipl. Phys.
Jan M. Simons
Institute of Crystallography
RWTH Aachen University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-26 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-26 8:29 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix typo in code and comments Stefan Weil
2011-04-26 9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-04-26 17:04 ` Jan Marten Simons [this message]
2011-04-26 17:26 ` Stefan Weil
2011-04-26 20:58 ` Stefan Weil
2011-04-26 22:07 ` Peter Maydell
2011-04-27 7:57 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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