From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264379AbTDXEPV (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:15:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264385AbTDXEPV (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:15:21 -0400 Received: from miranda.zianet.com ([216.234.192.169]:45828 "HELO miranda.zianet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264379AbTDXEPU (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:15:20 -0400 Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? From: Steven Cole To: Johannes Ruscheinski Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> References: <200304230936_MC3-1-35AA-864B@compuserve.com> <1051109635.29423.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1051158383.22271.123.camel@spc> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Date: 23 Apr 2003 22:26:23 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 21:39, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote: > Also sprach Steven Cole: > >... > > The fix.canon script used was this: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > find . -name "*" | xargs grep -l cannonicalize | awk '{print "ex - ",$1," -c \"%s/cannonicalize/canonicalize/g|x\""}' | sh > > ... > Hi Steve, > > As far as I know there is no such words as "canonicalize" in the English > language. The proper word seems to be "canonize". Since I'm not a native > speaker please take my comment with a grain of salt. Strictly speaking, you are probably right. According to this: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=canonize sense #2 would qualify "canonize". I took the position that the only person who could "canonize" anything is an elderly Polish fellow living in Rome. But I've been wrong before. The tortured variant "canonicalize" has seen enough usage to warrant this related entry here: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0%2c%2csid9_gci841392%2c00.html As far as "no such words" go, a descriptive grammar is generally more useful for human languages than a prescriptive grammar. Healthy human languages allow for growth. See Tao Te Ching 76. (late night rambling) Steven "verbalizing in his native language, where nouns and adjectives can be verbed" Cole