From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: `illegal' vs. `invalid' Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:56:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20050324.065616.17357152.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111644109 7213 80.91.229.2 (24 Mar 2005 06:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 24 07:01:48 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DELPJ-0000vF-R3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:01:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DELeX-0004EH-V0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:17:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DELdx-000489-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DELdr-00044i-Up for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DELdr-00043b-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.188] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DELLa-0002yT-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:57:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.155] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1DELLZ-0005qF-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:57:33 +0100 Original-Received: from [84.175.144.125] (helo=rigel.site) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1DELLZ-0004U0-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:57:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rigel.site (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id j2O5uGsu008030 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:56:16 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.50 on Emacs 22.0.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:2dc398bc694a1e60948148ba0a42c0da X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35086 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35086 Doing a grep search for `illegal' in the CVS tree of emacs I find many places where it should be `invalid' instead -- the same holds for `legal' which should often be replaced with `valid'. It's amazing for me as an Austrian to see that native English speakers normally don't make a clear distinction between those two words in daily speech. I wonder whether such glitches shall be fixed before the next release, and whether it should be fixed at all. Werner