From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: 14804@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:43:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3kz95yv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0STnh+O7PkLkzT1J4h74cYwLX1UHHS65VSRbD3TE88qQkQ@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 9 Jul 2013 15:54:03 +0200")
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> This conversation is bringing back fond memories of my changing colour
> to color and behaviour to behavior, and Stefan's deadpan comment
> (archived in DEVEL.HUMOR)
>
> " [...] As is well known, people who speak American English tend to be
> more resource-conscious and try to avoid wasting precious bits
> transferring those redundant "u"s. Think of the number of occurrences
> of "color" and "behavior" in the Emacs tarball, multiply that by the
> number of times it'll be downloaded, stored on hard disks, archived,
> ...that's a substantial saving."
I think Stefan meant "people who write American English".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-09 14:13 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 [this message]
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
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