Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Oct 19, 2007, 02:12 UTC
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- <20071019021255.GD3290@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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- <20071019004527.GA12930@spearce.org>
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:45:27PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Recently I was referred to the Grammar Police as the git-pack-objects > progress message 'Deltifying %u objects' is considered to be not > proper English to at least some small but vocal segment of the > English speaking population. Techncially we are applying delta > compression to these objects at this stage, so the new term is > slightly more acceptable to the Grammar Police but is also just > as correct.
Boo. I _like_ "deltifying". Sure, it's probably not in the dictionary, but that's how languages change: saying "delta compressing" all the time will get awkward, so people invent a new word using existing rules to explain a common phenomenon.
Anyway, if you want to please the Grammar Police, should it not be "Delta-compressing"? "Delta" is not an adverb here, but rather the phrase acts as a compound verb (i.e., the two words work in place of a single verb). Although "Delta-compressing objects" just looks stupid.
-Peff