On 13 March 2016 at 12:55, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > NeilBrown posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:33:22 +1100 as excerpted: > >> On Sun, Mar 13 2016, Qu Wenruo wrote: >> >>> BTW, I am always interested in, why de-duplication can be shorted as >>> 'dedupe'. > >>> I didn't see any 'e' in the whole word "DUPlication". >>> Or it's an abbreviation of "DUPlicatE" instead of "DUPlication"? >> >> The "u" in "duplicate" is pronounced as a long vowel sound, almost like >> d-you-plicate. > >> To make a vowel long you can add an 'e' at the end of a word. > >> by analogy, "dupe" has a long "u" and so sounds like the first syllable >> of "duplicate". > > As a native (USian but with some years growing up in the then recently > independent former Crown colony of Kenya, influencing my personal > preferences) English speaker, while what Neil says about short "u" vs. > long "u" is correct, I agree with Qu that the "e" in dupe doesn't make so > much sense, and would, other things being equal, vastly prefer dedup to > dedupe, myself. > > However, there's some value in consistency, and given the previous dedupe > precedent in-kernel, sticking to that for consistency reasons makes sense. > > But were this debate to have been about the original usage, I'd have > definitely favored dedup all the way, as not withstanding Neil's argument > above, adding the "e" makes little sense to me either. So only because > it's already in use in kernel code, but if this /were/ the original > kernel code... > > So I definitely understand your confusion, Qu, and have the same personal > preference even as a native English speaker. =:^)
I'm not sure to what degree the following is a relevant concern, and I'm guessing it's not, other than for laughs, but to me "dedupe" reads as "de-dupe" or "undupe". While it functions as the inverse of the verb "to dupe", I don't think one can "be unduped" or "be unfooled". What is that old aphorism? "Once duped twice shy"? ;-) Honestly I'm surprised that a verb-form of "tuple" hasn't yet emerged, because if it had we might be saying "detup" instead of "dedup". Best regards, Nicholas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
