Spelling fixes - round 6

Kuba Ober kuba at mareimbrium.org
Wed Jan 9 16:14:58 CST 2008


On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Dan Kegel wrote:
> A few issues:
>
> 1.
>   *          DPMI_xalloc
> - * special virtualalloc, allocates lineary monoton growing memory.
> + * special virtualalloc, allocates linear monoton growing memory.
>
> Um... Probably should be 'linearly'.
> But if you're opening the can of worms, might as well really
> improve it.  I suspect this would be better:
>
>   *          DPMI_xalloc
> - * special virtualalloc, allocates lineary monoton growing memory.
> + * Try to VirtualAlloc the len bytes just past the last block we allocated
> + * If that's not available, try 64K beyond; if still not available, fail.
>
> 2.
>
> -/* Volume functions derived from Alsaplayer source */
> +/* Volume functions derivated from Alsaplayer source */
>
> What?  What's wrong with "derived"?  "Derivated" isn't even a word?!

He's translating it to Gerenglish. Maybe we should get a native speaker to do 
it?

Cheers, Kuba



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