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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] Fix ty po in code and comments
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Jan Marten Simons |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] Fix ty po in code and comments |
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Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:04:13 +0200 |
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Am Dienstag 26 April 2011 11:25:58 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Replace writeable -> writable
>
> Why make this change? writeable and writable are both commonly used
> spellings.
It seems like "writeable" is the commonly used term in computer sciences and
"writable" is the normal english adjective formed from "to write" + "-able" in
general English.[1]
As we are refering to computer science related "writeable" it should be left
as is imho. But as I'm no native speaker, you might feel different on this.
On a side note: Samba offers both spellings as valid for thier configuration
files. [2]
[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/writeable
[2] http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22258.0
With regards,
Dipl. Phys.
Jan M. Simons
Institute of Crystallography
RWTH Aachen University