Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932088AbWJARsf (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:48:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932132AbWJARsf (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:48:35 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:46571 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932088AbWJARse (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:48:34 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <451FFEE9.8080705@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:46:17 +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: Randy Dunlap CC: Miguel Ojeda , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 V6] drivers: add lcd display support References: <20060930132253.8ccaa0ad.maxextreme@gmail.com> <20060930123547.d055383f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <451EE36C.5080002@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20060930144830.eba63268.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <653402b90609301545y2d4f162dq824ac360149fc0a7@mail.gmail.com> <20060930155250.8cae208b.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <451F7A59.4020803@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20061001094053.5d55bf06.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20061001094053.5d55bf06.rdunlap@xenotime.net> 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: 1352 Lines: 32 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:20:41 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote: ... >> It is as common as it is wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_Syndrome ... >> "LCD" and "LC display" are correct. > > whatever. > I've never heard anyone speak of or write about an LC display. Nor does anybody say or write AT machine. A web search finds 15 times more occurrences of "LC-Display" on German pages than of "LC display" on English pages. So it seams my suggestion of "LC display" is a bad one for usage outside of Germany. BTW, "LCD-Display" is doubly as often found on German web pages than "LC-Display" on German pages, and I'm not surprised. At some point, widely used words and expressions become accepted parts of a language. "LCD display" however is evidently still considered bad style --- in English as well as in German. But maybe this stylistic mistake is more prone to criticism among Germans than among North Americans. (Perhaps not) coincidentally, the other person who criticized it in this thread is obviously German too. -- 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/