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Re: Typos in the manual
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Marijn |
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Re: Typos in the manual |
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Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:48:18 +0100 |
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Hi,
On 02/13/11 08:00, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> * Neil Jerram wrote on Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 01:49:43AM CET:
>> Ralf Wildenhues writes:
>>> --- a/doc/ref/compiler.texi
>>> +++ b/doc/ref/compiler.texi
>>> @@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ for more information about the Brainfuck language
>>> itself.
>>> At this point, we break with the impersonal tone of the rest of the
>>> manual, and make an intervention. Admit it: if you've read this far
>>> into the compiler internals manual, you are a junkie. Perhaps a course
>>> -at your university left you unsated, or perhaps you've always harbored
>>> +at your university left you unsatisfied, or perhaps you've always harbored
>>> a sublimated desire to hack the holy of computer science holies: a
>>> compiler. Well you're in good company, and in a good position. Guile's
>>> compiler needs your help.
>>
>> "unsated" is fine in English too, and I hesitate to tinker with Andy's
>> fine prose. So I'd prefer to leave this as is.
>
> Yeah, that one can be attributed to my not being a native speaker.
>
Reading the quoted text I can't help but wonder what a "sublimated
desire" is. According to wiktionary "sublimated" is the past tense of
"sublimate" which has 3 meanings[1] none of which I recognize as the
intended meaning. Perhaps "subliminal desire"[2] is meant, that is, a
desire that is so faint that it is not discernible by the conscious
mind, but that usage is said to be reserved for stimuli and one may
consider it a stretch to include a desire under stimuli. If my analysis
so far seems correct I tentatively propose "secret desire" or "furtive
desire" as corrections.
Marijn
[1]: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sublimate
[2]: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subliminal
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- Typos in the manual, Ralf Wildenhues, 2011/02/08
- Re: Typos in the manual, Neil Jerram, 2011/02/12
- Re: Typos in the manual, Ralf Wildenhues, 2011/02/13
- Re: Typos in the manual, Neil Jerram, 2011/02/13
- Re: Typos in the manual,
Marijn <=
- Re: Typos in the manual, Mark Harig, 2011/02/15
- Re: Typos in the manual, Neil Jerram, 2011/02/15
- Re: Typos in the manual, Mark Harig, 2011/02/15
- Re: Typos in the manual, Neil Jerram, 2011/02/16
- Re: Typos in the manual, Neil Jerram, 2011/02/15
Re: Typos in the manual, Mark Harig, 2011/02/15