On Thu, Jun 6, 2013, at 7:04, Petr Pisar wrote: > My English is terrible, but since when `partion' is an adjective > <http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=partition>? Well, my knowledge of grammatical constructs is terrible, so whether it's called an adjective or a compound noun or whatever, I don't know, but I do know that English allows putting just about any word into any role. So even if the dictionary says it's a verb or a noun, it can be employed as almost anything else too. Can "table" be an adjective? The above dictionary seems to say no, but Merriam Webster says sure. http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=table http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table When table, why not partition too? Also, error messages are often written in telegram style, mostly lacking a verb: "Invalid argument", "No such directory", and so on. The latter is in my opinion short for: "There is no such directory". Thus I understand "Partition overlap on the disk" to be a shortened form of "There is partition overlap on the disk". When "overlap" would be a verb, "Partitions overlap on the disk" doesn't sound right. It would be better as: "Some partitions on the disk overlap". Which do you prefer? Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
