Re: [PATCH] Pedantry.

From: Jonathan Lundell (jlundell@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 10:46:34 EST

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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).

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/Jonathan Lundell.
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