Re: [PATCH] Conform to O'Reilly style guide

In a message dated: 14 Mar 2003 15:51:29 EST
Greg Hudson said:

>On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 15:05, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> > > If it's 'file server' why is it 'filename'?
>
>> Oh, I didn't know you were referring the *their* style guide :)
>>
>> I'll go yell at them :)
>
>No need. The rule is that two words get run together when they've been
>used together sufficiently long that people think of them as one word.
>Sometimes there's an interim period where they get hyphenated.

I find that to be rather silly. Don't the rules of the English
language count for anything anymore :)

>The rule is not that two-word phrases have to all be compound words or
>not simply because they share the same first word. It's "bookshelf" and
>"bookend" and "bookworm" but not "bookjacket" or "bookfair."

No, no, no, no! It's 'book shelf', 'book end', and 'book worm'.

At least according to my version of English :)

Oh well, I'm probably going to lose this battle, so I'll go off and
mope quietly in my corner now :)

>(All to the best of my understanding, of course.)
>
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Paul
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