Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] v4l2: Add missing control names

[Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>]

On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:25 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> Just one tiny suggestion:
> 
> On Friday 12 December 2008 14:10:36 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > +	/* CAMERA controls */
> > +	case V4L2_CID_CAMERA_CLASS:		return "Camera Controls";
> > +	case V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE_AUTO:		return "Auto-Exposure";
> 
> I would suggest "Auto Exposure" (no dash). It seems to be the most 
> common way to write it. At least to my eyes the dash looks strange. 
> Perhaps some native English speakers can help out here?

You actually need a professional English teacher, professor, editor, or
writer for that answer.  The hyphen has, to me, rather confusing rules.

IANAET, but....

For example when modifying a noun you, would likely hyphenate
adjective-noun modifiers:

"Auto-exposure setting"

But in simple adjective-noun pairs, you would not, as adjectives are
understood to modify nouns:

"Auto exposure"


Also, new compound words in English often get hyphenated when
introduced, but the hyphen disappears when the word comes into common
usage: e-mail vs. email.  But even if this were the path "auto-exposure"
took initially in English, I, as a native English speaker, would likely
never write "autoexposure".  "o" and "e" as directly adjacent syllabic
vowels in a written word just seems "wrong".  

Regards,
Andy

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans
> 

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