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From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: more for spelchkrs
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 22:18:19 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0304282211560.21373@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1051581546.22143.32.camel@spc>

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Steven Cole wrote:

> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >
> >linux-2.5.68-current...
> >
> >init/main.c:  mispelled   :)
> >
> >net/*:        apropriate; unparsable; sepciafied;
>
> I don't know what's wrong with "unparsable", but there are quite a few
> other spelling glitches in net/*.  The last line of

Methinks the only 'spell-check-able' word for this is:

	non-interpretable

In many cases, the correct negative is 'non-' rather than 'un'.

Unfortunately, parsable, parseable, etc., are not (yet) words so
they can't be negated with 'non-'.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-29  2:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-29  1:59 Steven Cole
2003-04-29  2:18 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
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2003-04-28 23:40 Randy.Dunlap

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