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bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent
From: |
Wolfgang Jenkner |
Subject: |
bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:00:48 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sun, Jul 07 2013, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> it's probably "non-existent" or "unexisting".
>
> Those are both English words, but "unexisting" is rare nowadays
> (almost obsolete), and "unexist" itself is not English.
Searching the web, however, suggests that, e.g., "make it unexist" is
quite commonly used, even where the context otherwise indicates that
people care about language usage.
Wolfgang
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, (continued)
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Paul Eggert, 2013/07/06
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2013/07/08
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Paul Eggert, 2013/07/08
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Juanma Barranquero, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Jambunathan K, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Juanma Barranquero, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Paul Eggert, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/07/09
- bug#14804: Gnus spelling fix: unexist -> nonexistent,
Wolfgang Jenkner <=