Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 May 2008 04:49:56 -0700 | From | "SL Baur" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: Correct user visible printk |
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On 5/2/08, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Actually using proper language is most definitely an improvement. Right > now we are using incorrect made up words. Not only that we are using > incorrect made up words when the ...
Alan, you misunderestimate[1] how important Linux has become. Linux is important and pervasive enough that you have the ability to make any new word you wish, like well, "Linux".
(Although I do hope and pray that "propogate" never becomes an accepted spelling).
> computing professional bodies also say that our choice is wrong.
And Microsoft says deploying Linux is "risky". Are we supposed to care?
I've changed my mind on this issue. I think we should keep "journaled" in the sources. It makes sense and if future dictionaries credit the etymology of that word to Linux kernel developers, so much the better.
-sb
[1] Inside joke on USians.
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