From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 14804@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:00:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ehb7lwfz.fsf@inode.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D8977B.2060009@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:17:31 -0700")
On Sun, Jul 07 2013, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> it's probably "non-existent" or "unexisting".
>
> Those are both English words, but "unexisting" is rare nowadays
> (almost obsolete), and "unexist" itself is not English.
Searching the web, however, suggests that, e.g., "make it unexist" is
quite commonly used, even where the context otherwise indicates that
people care about language usage.
Wolfgang
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-09 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-06 9:41 bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent Paul Eggert
2013-07-06 15:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-06 22:17 ` Paul Eggert
2013-07-08 14:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-09 2:27 ` Paul Eggert
2013-07-09 13:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-07-09 13:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 14:13 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-09 14:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 16:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-07-09 14:45 ` Paul Eggert
2013-07-09 16:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-07-09 13:00 ` Wolfgang Jenkner [this message]
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