Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:36:19 -0800 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker |
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"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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