From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: linux@trios.org
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:36:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E62E9D3.60103@kegel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1046661777.7527.518.camel@spc1.mesatop.com>
"Jared Daniel J. Smith" wrote:
> Even a single lost pun because of overenthusiastic spellchecking is
> not worth the cleanup. I would prefer to see typos than lose a single
> intentional 'misspelling'. It would be best if you posted all changes
> somewhere so that they could be verified manually.
>
> Consider the following:
>
> alignment=alignement
> alignmement is French; is this intentional?
No. All three instances were english typos.
> constants=konstants
> konstants is German; is this intentional?
No. All three instances were english typos.
> consumer=comsumer
> comsumer is a neologism: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_5/henshall/
That may be, but in the neologism, it seems to be usually partially capitalized,
and the C source sure looks like just a typo:
/* producer/comsumer pointers for Tx/Rx ring */
> Converted=Coverted
> is it a pun on something 'hidden' or is it something transformed?
Allan said it was a copy/paste error and should be fixed.
> descriptor=decriptor,desciptor
> is it descriptor or decrypter?
You be the judge:
/* Initiliaze Transmit/Receive decriptor and CR3/4 */
All instances I saw were just english typos.
> invocation=invokation
> invokation is German; is this intentional?
No idea, seems to be gone in the current kernel source?
> negative=negativ
> negativ is a legitimate non-English word; is this intentional?
Where I spot-checked it, it was always just an English typo.
> signaled=signalled
> signaling=Signalling
> signaling=signalling
> signalled is a legitimate alternate spelling of signaled.
Thanks, fixed!
> succeeded=succeded
> succeded could also be a typo for 'succeed'
>
> through=throught,throuth
> throught could also be a typo for 'thought'
Yes. These will have to be hand-reviewed. I do recommend absolutely
every change be hand-reviewed just in case.
> writable=writeable
> writeable is a legitimate alternate spelling of writable
You're right, though I had to dig to find a dictionary that agreed with you.
I've updated http://www.kegel.com/kerspell to remove the "signall*" and "writeable"
corrections. (My stoplist already listed them as acceptable, fwiw.)
Thanks!
- Dan
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2003-02-27 6:59 [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker Dan Kegel
[not found] ` <1046330232.15763.97.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2003-03-01 5:38 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-01 14:11 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 17:13 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 18:54 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-01 19:18 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-01 21:20 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 3:45 ` jw schultz
2003-03-02 2:08 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 3:02 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 3:54 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 8:04 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 4:16 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 8:21 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 8:40 ` jw schultz
2003-03-02 11:21 ` David Woodhouse
2003-03-02 13:49 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 14:55 ` David Woodhouse
2003-03-02 22:44 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-02 22:59 ` John Bradford
2003-03-03 2:29 ` Dan Kegel
[not found] ` <3E62C0FF.1090700@kegel.com>
[not found] ` <1046661777.7527.518.camel@spc1.mesatop.com>
2003-03-03 5:36 ` Dan Kegel [this message]
[not found] ` <3E62E4C0.9070103@kegel.com>
[not found] ` <1046668274.7527.533.camel@spc1.mesatop.com>
2003-03-03 5:48 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 15:35 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 8:09 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02 8:13 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02 3:29 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-01 19:30 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 20:33 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 21:25 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-01 21:25 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02 9:15 ` John Bradford
2003-03-02 9:31 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02 3:16 ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-01 15:57 shaheed
2003-03-01 16:35 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-01 18:01 ` shaheed
2003-03-01 18:31 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-05 18:10 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] <20030301160017$56fc@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-01 18:39 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-03-02 18:56 Jared Daniel J. Smith
2003-03-02 17:22 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-03-02 17:47 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-02 18:28 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-03-02 18:46 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 22:32 ` Alan Cox
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