From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: "viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk"
<viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Johannes Ruscheinski <ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu>
Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?
Date: 24 Apr 2003 19:39:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051234759.22271.143.camel@spc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304241929_MC3-1-35E8-687A@compuserve.com>
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 17:25, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Al Viro wrote:
>
>
> >> On the other hand, "canonicalize", while strange and new, unambiguously
> >> means (b).
> >>
> >> Is there an already-existing word which means (b)?
> >
> >% webster normalize
>
>
> There is a subtle difference between 'normal' and 'canonical',
> but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Another sense of "normal" is as in "normal vector", which is
perpendicular or orthogonal to a surface. Orthogonal is a good
description of what this thread has become, but that's normal.
Steven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-25 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-24 23:25 How did the Spelling Police miss this one? Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-25 1:39 ` Steven Cole [this message]
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2003-04-23 13:33 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-23 14:53 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-23 16:02 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-23 16:10 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-24 3:39 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-24 3:53 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-24 4:16 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-24 4:34 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-24 19:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-24 23:06 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-27 11:14 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-24 4:26 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-24 14:46 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:09 ` viro
2003-04-24 15:44 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-24 16:06 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:47 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-27 11:09 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-24 15:55 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:33 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-24 15:57 ` Timothy Miller
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