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From: | Chong Yidong |
Subject: | bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes |
Date: | Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:52:34 +0800 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> writes: > Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes: > >> Standard English uses the adjective "inactive" and the verb >> "deactivate"; "deactive" and "inactivate" are solecisms. > > Actually, at least the Longman Dictionary of the English Language (2nd > ed. 1991) contains > > inactivate vt to make inactive - inactivation n > > without any kind of restriction in usage or register. Right. So the only thing that actually needs a fix is follow-deactive-menu.
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