Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:49:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:49:18 -0400 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:6669 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:49:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:27:29 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel To: Andres Salomon Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: deregister? In-Reply-To: <20010429211049.A17111@mp3revolution.net> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Andres Salomon wrote: > Not to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, > according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. > Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in > place of "unregister"? Yes, we're all anti-american terrorists who plan to make the US economy collapse by inventing lots of new words which will have to be added to the dictionary, making the US economy unable to support the ever-growing dictionaries and ensuring the Americans will be unable to (learn to) spell, leaving them dead in the water if there's ever a linguistic war between them and the UK. Cunning, isn't it? cheers, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/