Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:03:19 -0400 | From | Andres Salomon <> | Subject | Re: deregister? |
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:27:29PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > Not to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, > > according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. > > Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in > > place of "unregister"? > > Yes, we're all anti-american terrorists who plan to make the > US economy collapse by inventing lots of new words which will > have to be added to the dictionary, making the US economy > unable to support the ever-growing dictionaries and ensuring > the Americans will be unable to (learn to) spell, leaving them
Americans can spell? Since when?
> dead in the water if there's ever a linguistic war between > them and the UK. > > Cunning, isn't it? > > cheers, > > Rik > -- > Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; > However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ > > Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) > >
Well, at least you provided a reason. ;P That would be incredibly lame if the answer turned out to be, "The original author made a mistake, and no one cared enough to fix it. API users (who are constantly mixing up unregister and deregister) be damned."
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