Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751286AbWJAQvN (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:51:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751288AbWJAQvM (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:51:12 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:64484 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751286AbWJAQvL (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:51:11 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <451FF176.7090500@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:48:54 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060730 SeaMonkey/1.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miguel Ojeda CC: akpm@osdl.org, Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 V7] drivers: add lcd display support References: <20060930232445.59e8adf6.maxextreme@gmail.com> <653402b90610010553p23819d2bsd7a07fabaee7ecf3@mail.gmail.com> <451FC7DC.7070909@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <653402b90610010725l7862ff9fy2b1c072caedaff24@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <653402b90610010725l7862ff9fy2b1c072caedaff24@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 26 Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On 10/1/06, Stefan Richter wrote: >> "LCD display" is wrong and, excuse me, dumb in *all* languages. ... > Well, not in all languages: You know, in other languages the "display" > word's first letter isn't "d", so "LCD display" looks good at least in > spanish, as we don't translate the english acronym. ;-) LCD is in Spanish, as in German, a foreign term. But still, its D is carrying the meaning of "display" or its native equivalent. ("Display" itself is even in common use in Spain, Germany, and many other countries.) In German, "display" may be translated to "Anzeige", "Bildschirm", "Display", "Monitor"; and any of "LCD-Anzeige", "LCD-Bildschirm", "LCD-Display", "LCD-Monitor" would be bad style. ("LCD-Display" would clearly be the worst of all, because one could argue that a display is just a part of a monitor, thus "LCD monitor" is arguably less redundant than "LCD display"...) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =-=- ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/