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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:46:34 -0700
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, torvalds@transmeta.com
From: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pedantry.
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At 10:21 AM +0100 2001-07-12, David Woodhouse wrote:
>AFAIK "Uncompressing" is not a real word even in American.

Sure it is, on the grounds of established usage, and on the grounds 
of reasonable analogies (undo, unwrap, &c).
-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.
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