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From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pedantry.
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:04:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010712160436.A31054@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6845.994929684@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <6845.994929684@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:21:24AM +0100

David Woodhouse wrote:
> AFAIK "Uncompressing" is not a real word even in American.

Depends how you parse it.  With uncompress-ing, the word "uncompress" is
actually a pronoun -- it is the name of the traditional uncompress
program.  Being a name, it does not have to be a real word. :-)

Now really, the kernel is not "compress"-ed per se, it's "zipped".

So may I suggest:


  Unzipping linux.... done <grin>


cheers,
-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-12 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-12  9:21 David Woodhouse
2001-07-12 14:04 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2001-07-12 15:46 ` Jonathan Lundell
     [not found] <fa.e8u67sv.rgkc2a@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.g522o4v.26i737@ifi.uio.no>
2001-07-12 15:15   ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-07-12 15:49     ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-12 15:21   ` Alan Shutko
2001-07-13  8:58     ` Joerg Schmitz-Linneweber

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