RE: [PATCH] Spelling fixes.
John Scoles <[email protected]>
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I had a change to go though it and it all looks ok. By the way 'dying' is correct the word you are thinking of is 'dyeing' English is such a silly language;) Cheers John > Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:03:54 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Spelling fixes. > > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:57:25 +0300, Ville Skyttä <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > - * We still localize, so we're safe from the callback dieing, > > + * We still localize, so we're safe from the callback dying, > > Changes like that make me weary to apply blindly. > > I, not having an English native tongue, would read that change as a > change from "The callback is going to die" to "the callback is going > to be painted". I know that would have to be "dyeing" but still not > an improvement. "dieing" is pretty common as "die" is a perl keyword. > Maybe "die-ing" would be the best approach. > > Thanks for the work, I'll go through all of them later if noone beats > me to it > > -- > H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ > using perl5.00307 .. 5.19 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE > http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ > http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/