From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:25:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:25:38 -0500 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([195.37.86.122]:41404 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:25:37 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:35:55 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: shaheed Cc: ms@citd.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker Message-ID: <20030301163555.GA1379@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <200303011557.13691.srhaque@iee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200303011557.13691.srhaque@iee.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 1 March 2003 15:57:13 +0000, shaheed wrote: > > Here is a list of corrections...I have omitted those that seem OK to me, > apostrophes, proper names, some that seem to be hypenation-related, American > vs. British differences and a few others. > > In the case of broken American spelling, I have provided American fixes > (against my better judgement :-)). Enjoy... > > brain-damaged=dain-bramaged,dain bramaged What's wrong with those? Yes, they don't exist in a dictionary, but neither do a c o rner or d-a-s-h-i-n-g or the famous p z y r a and i g g m i d s u r a t s I don't know where art starts and whether kernel documentation is a decent place for it, but a second thought might be worth it. :) btw: man fortune | grep redundancy -C2 Jörn, bringing the comedian back -- Fantasy is more important than knowlegde. Knowlegde is limited, while fantasy embraces the whole world. -- Albert Einstein