Nicholas D Steeves posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:08:41 -0400 as excerpted: > 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"? ;-)
That's the obvious association, yes, and the negative connotations of dupe are surely why I have such a personal negative reaction to dedupe. But precedent and current usage being what they are... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- 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
