Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker

From: Jörn Engel (joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 11:35:55 EST


On Sat, 1 March 2003 15:57:13 +0000, shaheed wrote:
>
> Here is a list of corrections...I have omitted those that seem OK to me,
> apostrophes, proper names, some that seem to be hypenation-related, American
> vs. British differences and a few others.
>
> In the case of broken American spelling, I have provided American fixes
> (against my better judgement :-)). Enjoy...
>
> brain-damaged=dain-bramaged,dain bramaged

What's wrong with those? Yes, they don't exist in a dictionary, but
neither do a
c
o
rner or d-a-s-h-i-n-g or the famous
   p z
 y r a and i g g
m i d s u r a t s

I don't know where art starts and whether kernel documentation is a
decent place for it, but a second thought might be worth it. :)

btw: man fortune | grep redundancy -C2

Jörn, bringing the comedian back

-- 
Fantasy is more important than knowlegde. Knowlegde is limited,
while fantasy embraces the whole world.
-- Albert Einstein
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