On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 5 June 2013 12:10, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > unrealize is not a word in english: > > The OED says: > # unˈrealize, v. > # trans. To make unreal; to deprive of reality. > > with the earliest citation from 1804.
So someone somewhere uses it like this once. It's still a bad idea to use uncommon words, it won't be in a dictionary of non-native english speakers and attempts to look it up in online dictionaries fail to return useful info. Documentation also talks about Realization as a process of making real. You are going to say someone used it like that in the 19th century? It does not change the fact that realize means "understand" in the most common meaning of this word. include/hw/qdev-core.h also uses the term Realization. Again for most people Realization means becoming aware of http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/realization?q=Realization So at least, this is ambigous. Can we use terms which are less ambigous? > so if it seems like the best term (and it does make > clear the pairing with realize, which I think is > a strong argument) we should go ahead and use it. > > thanks > -- PMM
