On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:45:27PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
